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2 questions about Red Hat Linux 9.1

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Nyquest007

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1. How can I get Red Hat to see my usb linksys wireless adapter?
2. why does it ask my to exit X server to install the NVidia drivers and how do I do that?
Okay one more, what is X server? Thanks, given I'm a trying to jump into linux from Windows, so I have some newbie questions.
 
Don't know much about wireless stuff since I don't use it. You could probably find something on a search in google.

There is probably a nice redhat-nvidia howto on their website, but..

It want's you to exit X because it wants you to. Pretty silly, but thats closed source for you. Probably because in case you have a older version of their drivers installed or maybe that you have to start up X with the new config or something. Doesn't want to cause freezups when modprobing (activating the driver) nvidia.

To exit X in Redhat you have to log in as root on one of the virtual terminals (hit ctl+alt+a "F#" button were #=1 thru 6) and change what's called the "runlevel".

In this case you want runlevel 3 I beleive which in Redhat means multiuser without X.

You do this by running this command:

telinit 3

then run the installer from that terminal.

Then all you have to do is edit your /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 or /etc/X11/XF86Config file as described on redhat's nvidia page or nvidia's readme files.

To get back to normal you run:

telinit 5
 
wow..., thanks alot. That is alot of info. I'll give it a shot, I'm still new to everything. It is so different from Windows, but probably for the better.
 
wow..., thanks alot. That is alot of info. I'll give it a shot, I'm still new to everything. It is so different from Windows, but probably for the better.
 
Originally posted by: Nyquest007
Okay one more, what is X server?
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It's the graphical display server. One of the spiffy things about unix (and linux) is its ability to seperate the program from its graphical display, even over a network. For example, you could be sitting at a pc somewhere (even one running windows, so long as it has an X server program running) and have on your screen the graphical display of programs running on remote machines. You can also have different programs (mldonkey and kmldonkey come to mind) that interface with the same core command line program (mlnet, for example).
 
I had issues getting my wireless cards to work with Linux. But then again, I never really played around with it.
 
well guys thanks for the info. I'm very intereted in learning the linux software, but it will take a little time to get familar. But thanks for the tips and links, please keep them coming.
 
All I have to say is stick with it for a while if you want to learn it. Do anything you can possibly think of, and want to do. If you want to do something with a program that you'd normally do in windows, see how you can do it on Linux! The only way to learn is to try. And if you screw up, even better. Learn to fix the problem and why it happened so that you'll know next time. =)
 
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