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Re: [LUG] nVidia card Drivers

 

On Tue, August 9, 2005 19:18, Tom Arrow said:
> Hi,
> I recently bought a nVidia Tornado Geforce FX 5200. I have the driver for
> all nVidia graphics cards on a LXF DVD. After reading the readme I
> realised
> I needed to kill X. I eventually managed to move the mouse fast enough to
> get X into the top list. I changed to tty6 and typed kill then X's pid. X
> stayed closed for a few seconds then reopened and I was flicked back to
> tty7. In short how on FC4 do I kill X then keep it closed.
> Thanks
>
The way I use is:

  Type ctrl-alt-F1 and login as root.
  Then enter 'init 3' for multi-user (non-X) runlevel.
  When you're done doing whatever, enter 'init 5' to get X started again.


John.

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