Hello! On Fri, Apr 30, 2004 at 05:12:16PM -0500, S.Squarepants wrote: > On Fri, 30 Apr 2004 14:24:58 +0200 > Markus Lindström <mlindstr@ulb.ac.be> wrote: > > > I think this thread is pretty self-explanatory. Actually, I want to > > install the binary nVidia drivers, and they require me to shut down > > the X server. Unfortunately, when using the ctrl-alt-backspace > > interrupt, X instantly respawns. > > Open a terminal, su to root, then type > > init 1 > Huh, going to single user just to shut down a single service? > do your business of installing and the like. When finished type > > init 5 > > to get back to graphical login, or > > init 3 > > to get to console-based login. On Debian systems the runlevels 3 and 5 are identical by default, unless explicitely modified by root. Cheers, Flo
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