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On Tue, August 9, 2005 19:18, Tom Arrow said: > Hi, > I recently bought a nVidia Tornado Geforce FX 5200. I have the driver for > all nVidia graphics cards on a LXF DVD. After reading the readme I > realised > I needed to kill X. I eventually managed to move the mouse fast enough to > get X into the top list. I changed to tty6 and typed kill then X's pid. X > stayed closed for a few seconds then reopened and I was flicked back to > tty7. In short how on FC4 do I kill X then keep it closed. > Thanks > The way I use is: Type ctrl-alt-F1 and login as root. Then enter 'init 3' for multi-user (non-X) runlevel. When you're done doing whatever, enter 'init 5' to get X started again. John. -- --------------------------------------------------------------- John Horne, University of Plymouth, UK Tel: +44 (0)1752 233914 E-mail: John.Horne@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fax: +44 (0)1752 233839 -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG Mail majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe list" in the message body to unsubscribe. FAQ: www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html