Re: [LUG] nVidia card Drivers

[Julian Hall <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Tom Arrow wrote:

> 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


Hi Tom,

I have the same card (same chispet anyway FX5200).  I asked the same 
question a while back, and I *think* the response was SHIFT+ and F key 
for different modes, ie SHIFT+F1 etc.  IIRC F3 was for quitting X abd 
getting to the shell.  Alternatively you could just tell FC4 to start in 
CLI and just reboot.  Make your changes, reboot, start X again and set 
it back to boot normally into the GUI.

Hopefully my question will still be in the archive and the full answer :)

Kind regards,

Julian

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