Re: runlevels

["Michael D. Norwick" <mnorwick@centurytel.net>]

Kees de Koster wrote:
> In article <7dTYU-4Pk-21@gated-at.bofh.it>, ChadDavis wrote:
>   
>> Yo.   I'm installing a nvidia driver, and the script says you must
>> turn off the xserver.  In order to this, since I didn't know how, I
>> rebooted into runlevel one.  Then the script complains about runlevel
>> one not being enough.  Is runlevel one more of a rescure mode than
>> just a non-graphical mode?  If so, what runlevel is non-graphical but
>> otherwise full.  OR, how do I shutdown the xserver directly? -- I
>> could just boot into runlevel two, switch to a command line login,
>> login and shutdown the xserver from there, couldn't I?
>>
>> Sort me out.
>>
>>
>>     
>
> You can also try, depending on which loginmanager you are using,
>
> # /etc/init.d/gdm stop
>
> or
>
> # /etc/init.d/kdm stop
>
> or so, adjust on you own needs ;-)
>
> Kees
>   
The first thing 'dude' needs to do is figure out what runlevels,
single-user mode, and 'sudo' or 'su to root' are!

Michael