Init 3 command crashes system Fedora 10

[Elite Racing]

Hey all,

I am trying to install drivers for my Nvidia Video card. The readme at Nvidia says to shut down X-server and any OPEN-GL stuff.

I am stuck at closing down X-server as every time is 'su' and 'init 3' , the system crashes. All I get is a whole bunch of brightly coloured text all over my screen in random locations.

Any ideas?

Thanks in advance.
I am not new to linux but it's been about 10 years. Every time I install it, I get frustrated trying to get it to work and end up nuking it in favour of Windows. I want to persevere with it this time so I may be likely to ask many questions here. Sorry to be a pain.

[Seve]

Hello:

Use one of the rpm packages and save yourself a lot of headaches.

i.e.
http://www.mjmwired.net/resources/mj...10.html#nvidia

Seve

[saicharan]

Hi ,

To stop X server,open inittab file.It is under /etc/inittab.and change the run level to 3.
$su
$ vi /etc/inittab

Go to the bottom of the file,change the default run level to 3.and reboot the system. Dont use init to change the run level.
And also go through some threads relating the same issue.

[mrHappyPants]

Originally Posted by Elite Racing

Hey all,

I am trying to install drivers for my Nvidia Video card. The readme at Nvidia says to shut down X-server and any OPEN-GL stuff.

I am stuck at closing down X-server as every time is 'su' and 'init 3' , the system crashes. All I get is a whole bunch of brightly coloured text all over my screen in random locations.

Any ideas?

Thanks in advance.
I am not new to linux but it's been about 10 years. Every time I install it, I get frustrated trying to get it to work and end up nuking it in favour of Windows. I want to persevere with it this time so I may be likely to ask many questions here. Sorry to be a pain.

CTRL+ALT+F2 should do the trick, but use the kmod install instructions posted by leigh123@linux. You can't go wrong (Y)

[JohnVV]

use the kmod driver . But if you must use the nvidia.run driver then
-- but first a few WARNINGS :
1) you MUST reinstall it ( the .run) for EVERY kernel , xorg , and X11 update
2) you will need to reinstall mesaGL every time you reinstall the .run driver

yum reinstall mesa-libGL mesa-libGLU mesa-libGL-devel mesa-libGLU-devel

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i use " telinit 3 " and don't use "init 3 "
and save / copy the .run driver to /

su -
cd /
chmod +x *.run
/sbin/telinit 3

relogin in as root in the text only login

cd /
sh *.run

and fallow the on screen instructions

BUT using the kmod or akmod is MUCH easer