On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 8:57 AM, Dave Sherohman <d...@sherohman.org> wrote:
> 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.)
>
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yes, as Frank said /etc/init.d/kdm stop works, one thing i don't
understand about runlevels though is, when i reboot, i still get X
which i want but,
who -r
run-level 2 2011-06-10 09:01 last=S
why is X running at runlevel 2 and not 5?
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