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Help: How to exit X Server on Linux Mandrake 7.0?

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Charles

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I need to install a newer XFree86 version 4.01, and to do so, I have to go to the command line only mode. But I don't know how to shutdown XServer from the KDE session!

Thanks...
 
Ctrl+Alt+Backspace

you can switch to different terminal out of X via Ctrl+Alt+F1 -> Ctrl+Alt+F6...by default X Server is on tty7. Also if Ctrl+Alt+Backspace brings you back to a X Display Manager (or any of its derivatives such as gdm, etc) than you'll need to explicitly kill those. If you don't want to boot to X then change the run levelto 3. Edit /etc/inittab file...it should like something like that...

# Default runlevel. The runlevels used by RHS are:
# 0 - halt (Do NOT set initdefault to this)
# 1 - Single user mode
# 2 - Multiuser, without NFS (The same as 3, if you do not have networking)
# 3 - Full multiuser mode
# 4 - unused
# 5 - X11
# 6 - reboot (Do NOT set initdefault to this)
#
id:3:initdefault:

make sure that id: is set to 3.
 
You can't do this from a console within X?

No need to change the default init. That's the beauty of SysV. All you have to do is grab a VC, and you don't have to do that, but you'll probably think you crashed the box if you don't then switch from init 5 to init 3.

So grab a VC, just as HigherGround describes. And, as root, issue init 3. This will switch you to run level 3. Install the binaries, then issue init 5 to go back to graphical mode. You'll need to switch back to tty7 to see your kdm login screen, and you're done.
 
You guys probably think that I'm a Linux master 😉 Wait a second, maybe I'm an experience Win user, but I'm a new born baby in this Open source world. So I need more detailed guide. I just succesfully triple boot Win2k, WinME and Linux yesterday (I use Win2k Bootloadter as default).

I have few questions:

1. What is SysV and VC, Damaged?
2. Whos is using GeForce with Linux system?

Thanks...
 
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