Hello
Richard Cavell (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote:
> I have installed Debian linux on an unremarkable Pentium 4-class
> system. It boots to the KDE.
>
> Now, my nVidia GeForce 4 Ti 4200 is not recognized by KDE. It
> therefore uses it as generic SVGA. This yields a maximum resolution
> which is quite small and makes it impossible for me to use GIMP etc,
> because the dialog boxes are bigger than the screen.
>
> I have downloaded the nVidia drivers and I'm trying to install them,
> but of course I need to exit kde to command line in order to do this.
> How do I exit from kde to the command line? (Ctrl-Alt-F1 will not do
> this).
Change to a text console (CTRL+ALT+F1), log in, su to root, run
/etc/init.d/gdm stop
(if you use gdm to log in)
Install the driver, change your XFree config, and run
/etc/init.d/gdm start
By the way, if you use Debian Testing or Unstable, there are also
packaged versions of the Nvidia driver available. Right now there is a
glx package, a precompiled kernel driver for 2.4.26, and the kernel
driver source package in testing.
> Secondly, how do I make my computer boot with no kde at all? My
> default runlevel is 2, and in /etc/rc2.d I have:
>
> S10sysklogd, S11klogd, S14ppp, S18portmap, S20exim4, S20fam, S20inetd,
> S20makedev, S20mysql, S20slash, S89atd, S89cron, S91apache, S99gdm,
> S99rmnologin, S99stop-bootlogd
>
> Where is kde being started?
KDE is started by your login manager. Looks like that is gdm, so remove
that link.
best regards
Andreas Janssen
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