Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2488 mails)

[charles buchanan <gobrowns@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tuesday 06 February 2007 21:37, Jon Clausen wrote:
> On Tue, 06 Feb, 2007 at 20:57:13 -0800, charles buchanan wrote:
> > > To set up X11 drivers, you typically need for X11 to be not running.
> > >
> > > Console in this case means glass CRT. Normally a console and a terminal
> > > window are functionally equivalent, but when it is required that X11
> > > not be running, there is a major difference.
> > >
> > > Joe
> >
> > So basically, I need to run this ate the cli without KDE running? So I
> > take it that you can almost guess my next question?  :-) How do I keep
> > KDE from starting up?
>
> At the boot prompt, enter
>
> 3
>
> - tells the system to boot into runlevel 3; "Full multiuser but no
> graphics".
>
> Alternatively, if you miss the boot screen, when the system is up and at
> the login screen;
>
> <ctrl><alt><F1>
>
> brings you terminal 1. Login as root and enter
>
> init 3
>
> - which takes the system 'down' from runlevel 5, to runlevel 3.
>
> HTH
> /Jon
> --
> YMMV

Thanks Jon. Sometimes I feel really low because sometimes I will ask a 
question without thinking farther, and when i hit the send button, off I go 
searching for one thing and end up finding the answer to my own question. :-O 
I have been going back and forth with init 3 and init 5 trying to figure this 
video driver situation out and I think I'm in a bit of a quandary.  I found 
the ati How-to and was following along but it seems the driver I was trying 
to install conflicts with a driver that is installed. :-(  It's a 32bit vs 
64bit struggle I think. Anyway, it's past my bed time and I'll have to try 
and tackle this later on. 

Thanks! 
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