spectrascope Posted January 2, 2005 Posted January 2, 2005 Hello having a problem getting Xserver to turn off I am running Fedora Core 2 but in order to install the 6800gt but you have to exit Xserver in order install the driver help please I already try cltr-alt-bksp no luck with that one Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
markiemrboo Posted January 2, 2005 Posted January 2, 2005 I take it that it comes back with the login screen? Boot single user mode, or whatever Linux calls it? Run level 3? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
spectrascope Posted January 2, 2005 Posted January 2, 2005 It goes to command line with the command but it does not kill Xserver Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
markiemrboo Posted January 2, 2005 Posted January 2, 2005 Single user mode? Single user mode shouldnt be starting X. If you mean when hit ctrl+alt+backspace, do a `kill -KILL <x pid here>`. There may be something like gdm, kdm or xdm trying to respawn X or whatever, so you'd have to kill those first. Alternative. `reinit 3` or `init 3` I think. Can't remember now. On FreeBSD it's just `shutdown now` goes to single user mode. Might work on Linux too if neither of them work. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zarkhalar Posted January 3, 2005 Posted January 3, 2005 Hmm, I always have trouble with shutting down fedora X server, I just change the permissions of X to 000 and kill it o_0 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
markiemrboo Posted January 3, 2005 Posted January 3, 2005 Sounds really quite dodgy to me. I've not had problems killing it if I ever needed to. Wait. I lied, I have.. but only when using kdm or some other login manager. I don't use one any more.. just the boring old console login with a shell script asking me if I want to startx or not Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eva_Unit_0 Posted January 13, 2005 Posted January 13, 2005 Yeah, I have gentoo boot to the command prompt, and I just have startx load the xserver and gnome. That way I can do all the stuff that requires no xserver without worrying about it. Have you tried control-alt-F1? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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