Installing new Nvidia drivers in RH9, a question or two

[rky60]

I kinda got the basics down of what i need to do, but where i need to do those steps is throwin me off

Where do i set my default run level so you i'll boot to a vga console and not boot directly into X, or as the instructions say "cd'ing into the directory containing the downloaded file"and it'll be there i can run

sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-4496-pkg1.run

And edit the XF86Config file while i'm there

Newbie to this, but i managed to get a few things installed, sorry if i haven't explained what i need to know better

 

[drag]

you don't need to boot into a runlevel. You just tell it.

Init is the program that is the mother of all programs. It's the first one that's loaded at boot time and all other proccesses are "children" of it.

The command to tell init to go to runlevel 3 (this is RD's X-free multiuser runlevel) is:
telinit 3

(tell + init = telinit. 🙂 )

That should shutdown X if my memory serves me correctly. The runlevels are dictated by the config file /etc/inittab. So check that out and it should tell you what each runlevel does.

Then when your done you tell init to go to runlevel 5.
telinit 5

And that should be that. If everything worked out, it should go right back to normal.

Also make sure that you back up any configuration file you edit. I like to copy it to my root user's home directory and rename it something like: xfreeconfig.old

 

[Nithin]

Thats cool. I normally edit the etc/inittab file, but this is easier.