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

[Nathan J. Underwood]

I'll take a shot at this, but you may want to wait to see if I get a 
tongue lashing or brow beating before you follow the instructions:

1) Download the nvidia installer that was mentioned before, and note 
where you save it (/home/<yourname> maybe?)
2) Using your file manager of choice, make a copy of the file 
/etc/inittab (when doing this, I generally make a copy with a date stamp 
and sequence.  For example, the first time I edited it today, I'd make a 
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
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

Before you do this, wait for a few folks to respond to make sure I've 
not left anything out, but I think that this should get you going.  Hope 
this helps, and welcome to Linux!!

== Begin Example ==
# Default runlevel. The runlevels used by RHS are:
#   0 - halt (Do NOT set initdefault to this)
#   1 - Single user mode
#   2 - Multiuser, without NFS (The same as 3, if you do not have 
networking)
#   3 - Full multiuser mode
#   4 - unused
#   5 - X11
#   6 - reboot (Do NOT set initdefault to this)
#
id:5:initdefault:
    ^ change this to 3
== End Example ==



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Nathan J. Underwood
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http://www.cybertechcafe.net

Kelly Williams wrote:
> Thanks for you reply Jerald. Not to put too fine a point on it but I don't
> know how to do ANY of what you wrote. I've read the instructions on nVidia's
> site, the problem is that I've NEVER booted into or ran programs from a
> non-graphical envirement. As well I wouldn'r know how to edit ANYTHING so
> you see my problem. I'm a Windows convert w/o ANY real experience from the
> command line. Tongue-lashing and brow-beating are more than welcome for a
> guided tour :-)
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jerald Sheets" <jsheets at yahoo.com>
> To: "Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts" <ale at ale.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, January 05, 2005 2:54 PM
> Subject: Re: [ale] Problems w/ (VERY) new hardware...
> 
> 
> 
>>You can actually download the Nvidia installer from
>>their website, boot to runlevel 3, run the fully
>>automated install routine, make the suggested changes
>>to your xorg.conf, and then boot back into runlevel 5,
>>and you should be set.
>>
>>--J
>>
>>--- Kelly Williams <mentat_assassin at hotmail.com>
>>wrote:
>>
>>
>>>I'm looking for anyone in the Atlanta area who can
>>>help configure a GeForce
>>>6800 GT to enable 3D acceleration. I've migrated
>>>from RH9 to Fedora 1 and 2
>>>and finally to SuSE 9.1 (the FORMERLY free one). In
>>>doing so I've managed to
>>>stay pretty clear of the command line and this seems
>>>to be my undoing. Any
>>>help would be GREATLY APPRECIATED. I've been able to
>>>avoid my Windows
>>>partition for the better part of a year and I don't
>>>want to return just to
>>>play the latest games.
>>>
>>>BTW Slackware Zed, if you still watch these boards I
>>>like to hear from you.
>>>
>>>Kelly
>>>404.822.3100 (before 10PM)
>>>mentat_assassin at hotmail.com
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