NVidia Debian thread

[C M Reinehr]

On Tuesday 30 January 2007 10:08, Net Llama! wrote:
> On Tue, 30 Jan 2007, David Bandel wrote:
> > On 1/29/07, Net Llama! <netllama at linux-sxs.org> wrote:
> >> On Mon, 29 Jan 2007, Bob Hemus wrote:
> >>> I finally got around to screwing with my NVidia driver and have a
> >>> problem.  Sure seems there was an easy way to switch from runninh x11
> >>> to a command line with our buggering up the etc/init.d/xfree86-common
> >>> file in the start up.  I just can't find it in the Debian manual or by
> >>> googling.  When I tried the /home/bob#
> >>>       sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-9631-pkg1.run
> >>> I get this error.  I had all of the x windows closed, but cannot
> >>> remember how to temporarily shut down the x11 server.  Or reading the
> >>> INSTALLING THE NVIDIA DRIVER in the README.
> >>>
> >>> sh NVIDIA-LinuxERROR: You appear to be running an X server; please exit
> >>> X before installing.  For
> >>>         further details, please see the section INSTALLING THE NVIDIA
> >>> DRIVER in the
> >>>         README available on the Linux driver download page at
> >>> www.nvidia.com.
> >>> Thanks for every body's help and pastience.
> >>> Bob
> >>> PS Gotta quit now.  Wife is getting mean.  Try again tomorrow.
> >>
> >> Debian thinks that they're too good to respect the runlevels that just
> >> about every other distro has treated as a standard.  So you need to do
> >> "/etc/init.d/gdm stop" to get X to shut down.  It lame & retarded.
> >
> > Slackware has runlevels?
>
> It did the last time I used it.
>
> > Anyway, I find your comments to be rather immature.  Personally, I've
> > always found putting X startup in inittab to be rather ridiculous.
> > First time I saw it I was amazed at the stroke of stupidity.  But
> > then, every one of the more than half dozen different flavors of UNIX
> > (and I'm not talking Linux distros here, I'm talking UNIX OS' like
> > Ultrix, SUN OS4, HP-UX, AIX, *BSD, and others) all have found
> > different ways to handle startups in general, not just X.
>
> But we're not talking about UNixes, we're talking about Linux, and Debian
> is the only one that effectively ignores the entire runlevel concept for
> no apparent reason.

	I wouldn't say that it ignores run levels, just that it has a slightly 
different way of organizing them (as it does many other facets of Linux). Run 
level 0 = full stop, run level 1 = single user, run level 2 = multi-user & 
run level 6 = reboot. IANAE but I think the only real difference, here, is 
that using run levels of 3, 4 or 5 is left to the discretion of the user. 
IIRC this is quite similar to COL except that COL didn't start the X-server 
until run level 3 or 4, but I could be mistaken.

cmr

> > So who's lame and retarded?  I would have voted for RedCrap.
>
> And SuSE, and Slackware.

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