[lug] RE: Nvidia accelerated divers

[D. Stimits]

"D. Stimits" wrote:
> 
> Hugh Brown wrote:
> >
> > (vi|emacs|pico) /etc/inittab
> >
> > edit the initdefault line and put a 3 in for the 5
> >
> > id:3:initdefault:
> 
> It's also useful to know that, in addition to this edit, you can do an
> actual change from runlevel 5 to 3 by running as root: "init 3". Then to
> try runlevel 5 again without rebooting: "init 5". There are of course
> times when you do actually want to reboot, but graphics failure (without
> keyboard failure) usually doesn't require that. Now if you don't want to
> risk cycling things, you can go to init 3 and try "startx" first, see if
> that works. If so, kill X11 with control-alt-backspace, and run init 3

Correction: after killing startx version of X11, then run "init 5" (not
3) to get gdm or kdm back; unless you reedit /etc/inittab, reboot will
still go to init 3; this is a way to go to runlevel 5 without actually
committing to it.

D. Stimits, stimits at idcomm.com

> to go to the gdm or kdm managers.
> 
> D. Stimits, stimits at idcomm.com
> 
> >
> > "Jeff Walker"
> > >
> > > I know this is a pretty stupid question, but how do you set your system to
> > > boot to the console instead of xdm (redhat 7.1, kde login manager)
> > >
> > > thanks.
> > >
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