NVidia Debian thread

[Bob Hemus]

On Mon, 2007-01-29 at 19:49 -0800, Ken Moffat wrote:
> Net Llama! wrote:
> > 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.
> >   
> 
> Alternately, I just tried "init 1" on my debian etch system and it went 
> to single user mode, which should allow installing nvidia drivers.
> 
> Of course, to use either "init 1" or "/etc/init.d/gdm stop" you must be 
> root.
> 
> To return to X you can use "init 2" or "/etc/init.d/gdm start" respectively.
> 
> (although my try at "init 2" yields portmap errors, so I just rebooted.
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I tried telinit 1, but that didn't work?
Bob I'll try the /etc/init.d/gdm stop. Will I still need to reboot to
get back my xserver?
Bob