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Old 05-26-2003, 01:11 AM
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Shutting down X Server
How do I shut down an X Server so that I can install Linux NVidia drivers? Thanks...
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Old 05-26-2003, 01:19 AM
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/etc/inittab
open that up, find the line that has something with some colons and a 5 and stuff, change the 5 to a 3, save, reboot

when you want it back, type startx to start X, and change the # back to a 5 and save
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Old 05-26-2003, 01:26 AM
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And your certain that works with all linux distrobutions? And that the instructions were clear enough he won't obliterate his install and be left to fend for himself.
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Old 05-26-2003, 01:35 AM
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It's not nice to tell someone to change a random 5 to a 3

Rather, you should change the standard runlevel at boot to the one that does not automatically bring up X, so that you can do your changes.
This, of course, is done by changing a 5 in /etc/inittab to a 3.

Also, it does not truely work everywhere.
The startup of X could be done via a the (hidden) .profile file in one's home directoy containing the line "startx".
Gentoo Linux has named runlevels "boot", "nonetwork", "default" and "reboot". So you would rather need to remove the command to start X from your current runlevel.

Unrelatedly, your window manager should provide an option to shut down X, or you can just press CTRL-ALT-Backspace. But your system could be configured to log you out/shut down after that
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Old 05-26-2003, 02:24 AM
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I am still a strong believer in runlevel-3 booting.


Sometimes you don't need X, so why boot it and shut it down in those times? It's not very hard to type "startx"
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Old 05-26-2003, 03:28 AM
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All I did was kill the display manager, like kdm, gdm, xdm etc... then it went into the console
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Old 05-26-2003, 04:32 PM
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I did that , but now I dont know how to reenable the display manager
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Old 05-26-2003, 07:37 PM
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I did that , but now I dont know how to reenable the display manager
when your in the console just type the display manager you want to use (eg.. kdm)
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Old 05-26-2003, 11:04 PM
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I am still a strong believer in runlevel-3 booting.


Sometimes you don't need X, so why boot it and shut it down in those times? It's not very hard to type "startx"
I do not have X starting when I boot either.
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