Re: [newbie] Help with installing video drivers.
On Wed, 27 Aug 2003 13:21:04 -0400 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, What is init 3? How do I drop to it? How do I switch back to init5? Just for this post to you I have turned-off PGP so this should appear in OE as a simple text message, I would refer to keep it on at all times because of security and privacy concerns. For any future postings you may need to use another client or save to disk from OE and read it in notepad or other program. Runlevels are a state, or mode, defined by the services listed in the SysV /etc/rc.d/rcx.d/ directory, where x is the number of the runlevel. The idea behind SysV init runlevels revolves around the fact that different systems can be used in a different ways. For example, a server runs more efficiently without the drag on system resources created by the X Window System. Other times, a system administrator may need to operate the system at a lower runlevel to perform diagnostic tasks, like fixing disk corruption in runlevel 1, when no other users can possibly be on the system. The characteristics of a given runlevel determines which services are halted and started by init. For instance, runlevel 1 (single user mode) halts any network services, while runlevel 3 starts these services. By assigning specific services to be halted or started on a given runlevel, init can quickly change the mode of the machine without the user manually stopping and starting services. The following runlevels(init) are used 0 Halt 1 Single-user text mode 2 Not used (user-definable) 3 Full multi-user text mode 4 Not used (user-definable) 5 Full multi-user graphical mode (with an X-based login screen) 6 Reboot The default runlevels normally used are 1 and 5 On my systems I boot to runlevel(init) 3 then manually launch the X-server, if/when you boot to the graphical log-in you are booting to runlevel(init) 5 To get to init 3 from init 5 log-out of your WM so that you are at the login screen. Press the key combination Ctrl-Alt-F2 This will take you to a text login prompt. Login with your username and password and then su to root. At the prompt enter: init 3 example [EMAIL PROTECTED] charles]# init 3 This will shut down the X-server and drop you to runlevel 3. From this level it is safe to install the fglrx driver and to run fglrxconfig. If you have problems with fglrxconfig I can walk you through each setting being either as cryptic or verbose as you wish. Once the above is accomplished to return to runlevel 5 at the prompt enter: init 5 example [EMAIL PROTECTED] charles]# init 5 This will take you to the graphical login screen. Charles -- Many a writer seems to think he is never profound except when he can't understand his own meaning. -- George D. Prentice - Mandrake Linux 9.2 on PurpleDragon Kernel-2.4.22-1mdkenterprise http://www.eslrahc.com - pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [newbie] Help with installing video drivers.
Would you send it in text and not an attachment? Thanks. - Original Message - From: Charles A Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, August 27, 2003 9:40 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Help with installing video drivers. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Help with installing video drivers.
On Wed, 27 Aug 2003 05:18:33 -0400 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I need help installing a video card driver for a radeon 9800 in mandrake. What the problem is is after I install it ask me to generate a customized kernel module What version of Mandrake are you running and which of the ATI drivers are you using? I am running cooker (9.2) and using fglrx-glc22-4.3.0-3.2.0.i586.rpm with a Radeon9600 Pro. You will need to install the kernel-source rpm. You can do this by # urpmi kernel-source or use rpmdrake and look in the 'addable' section and select the kernel-source rpm. For my kernel it is kernel-source-2.4.22-1mdk Once you have installed the kernel-source drop to init3. Forget the direction they give for manually building the kernel module, thats to much like 'work'. It is much simpler to re-install the driver rpm -ivh --force fglrx-x.rpm It will now be able to find a kernel build environment and will build the kernel module for you. Once the module has been built and loaded run fglrxconfig to create the proper entries in /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 Switch back to init5 and you should be set to go. Charles -- Living your life is a task so difficult, it has never been attempted before. - Mandrake Linux 9.2 on PurpleDragon Kernel-2.4.22-1mdkenterprise http://www.eslrahc.com - pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [newbie] Help with installing video drivers.
On Wed, 27 Aug 2003 09:46:34 -0400 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Would you send it in text and not an attachment? Thanks. Since he will also get this as a attachment with crappy OE, Stephen would you mind explaining to him about PGP, which I do not intend to stop using, and possible send to him direct a copy of my original post. Thanks Charles -- We all live in a state of ambitious poverty. -- Decimus Junius Juvenalis - Mandrake Linux 9.2 on PurpleDragon Kernel-2.4.22-1mdkenterprise http://www.eslrahc.com - pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [newbie] Help with installing video drivers.
Would you send it in writing so that when I open the email I can read it instead of in an attachment? Thanks. - Original Message - From: Charles A Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, August 27, 2003 10:12 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Help with installing video drivers. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Help with installing video drivers.
On Wed, 27 Aug 2003 13:21:04 -0400 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, What is init 3? How do I drop to it? How do I switch back to init5? Just for this post to you I have turned-off PGP so this should appear in OE as a simple text message, I would refer to keep it on at all times because of security and privacy concerns. For any future postings you may need to use another client or save to disk from OE and read it in notepad or other program. Runlevels are a state, or mode, defined by the services listed in the SysV /etc/rc.d/rcx.d/ directory, where x is the number of the runlevel. The idea behind SysV init runlevels revolves around the fact that different systems can be used in a different ways. For example, a server runs more efficiently without the drag on system resources created by the X Window System. Other times, a system administrator may need to operate the system at a lower runlevel to perform diagnostic tasks, like fixing disk corruption in runlevel 1, when no other users can possibly be on the system. The characteristics of a given runlevel determines which services are halted and started by init. For instance, runlevel 1 (single user mode) halts any network services, while runlevel 3 starts these services. By assigning specific services to be halted or started on a given runlevel, init can quickly change the mode of the machine without the user manually stopping and starting services. The following runlevels(init) are used 0 Halt 1 Single-user text mode 2 Not used (user-definable) 3 Full multi-user text mode 4 Not used (user-definable) 5 Full multi-user graphical mode (with an X-based login screen) 6 Reboot The default runlevels normally used are 1 and 5 On my systems I boot to runlevel(init) 3 then manually launch the X-server, if/when you boot to the graphical log-in you are booting to runlevel(init) 5 To get to init 3 from init 5 log-out of your WM so that you are at the login screen. Press the key combination Ctrl-Alt-F2 This will take you to a text login prompt. Login with your username and password and then su to root. At the prompt enter: init 3 example [EMAIL PROTECTED] charles]# init 3 This will shut down the X-server and drop you to runlevel 3. From this level it is safe to install the fglrx driver and to run fglrxconfig. If you have problems with fglrxconfig I can walk you through each setting being either as cryptic or verbose as you wish. Once the above is accomplished to return to runlevel 5 at the prompt enter: init 5 example [EMAIL PROTECTED] charles]# init 5 This will take you to the graphical login screen. Charles -- Many a writer seems to think he is never profound except when he can't understand his own meaning. -- George D. Prentice - Mandrake Linux 9.2 on PurpleDragon Kernel-2.4.22-1mdkenterprise http://www.eslrahc.com - Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
