[ale] Problems w/ (VERY) new hardware...

[Aditya Srinivasan]

On Wed, 5 Jan 2005, Nathan J. Underwood wrote:

> copy called /etc/inittab.bak-5jan2k51)
> 3) Using your text editor of choice, open the file /etc/inittab (the one 
> you just made a backup of), and look for a section (most likely at the 
> very top) that talks about "Default Runlevel" (example below).  Change 
> the first non-comment line (i.e. the first one that doesn't start with 
> the #) to id:3 rather than id:5.
> ** Now, the next time you reboot, you're going to boot into text only mode.
> 4) Reboot your computer, you'll boot into text only mode

Just curious : will telinit from a console not work ?

> 5) At the login prompt, login as root
> 6) Navigate to where you saved the nvidia installer
> 7) Run the installer.  The instructions on the nvidia website will 
> probably be helpful here
> 8) Once complete, copy your original /etc/inittab (the backup) to the 
> actual /etc/inittab.  To do this, you should be able to just:
> cp /etc/inittab.bak-5jan2k51 /etc/inittab
> This will set it to boot back into graphical mode

To help make things complete :
9. Reboot instructions:
shutdown   
-- Then power on the computer again.
OR 
reboot
OR ??
telinit 5 


Thanks,
sriad