On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 07:42:25AM +0200, Mark Panen wrote: > Been googling for this with no success. I have tried init 3 and teinit > 3 and the runlevel command shows i am at runlevel 3
Then you are in runlevel 3. If your true objective is to get to runlevel 3, you have succeeded! > but X is still on and i cannot install a Nvidia driver. Unlike Red Hat-derived distributions, Debian leaves it up to the individual sysadmin to define the significance (if any) of runlevels 2-5. By default, they are all identical. If X is starting by default, then you must have installed an X display manager. Unfortunately, it's been so long since I last did a default Debian install that I have no idea which one might have been automatically installed (I'm assuming you didn't explicitly install one, since you don't want what it does to happen), but you should be able to find the running display manager with ps ax | grep dm Look for a process named something like "xdm", "wdm", "gdm", "kdm", etc. Assuming you found "xdm", you can then shut it down with /etc/init.d/xdm stop If, on the other hand, you just need to get to a real console and don't need to shut X down completely, a simple ctrl-alt-F1 will do that. (Although, if your purpose is to install nVidia drivers, you probably will need to shut X down.) -- Dave Sherohman -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110610065722.gx25...@sherohman.org
