On Wed, 2002-10-09 at 00:46, lameth wrote: > How do you shut X-windows down and get to the command prompt? > Depending on the response I get from another post I'm thinking of > upgrading the drivers for my video card and I'm sure it wouldn't be a > bad idea to turn X off while I do so. > I'm sure that this isn't the right way to go about this, but since I rely on GDM to start my X sessions, I just switch to a regular tty screen and kill off gdm-binary. If you're not running gdm I'd imagine you could just kill off XFree86 with the same result. Be warned, I'm SURE that there is a cleaner way to do this, I'm just not sure what it is. :) But as far as upgrading your video drivers is concerned, I'd think that upgrading them and then restarting X via C-A-Backspace would work just fine. I roll my own kernel and recompile the driver modules by hand so I always have to reboot. But assuming that you're just going to use precompiled modules, just restarting X via the above key sequence should be enough. But IANA X Expert. :) -Alex
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