[wellylug] Sis 760gx setup

[Alex Thomson]

Steve Macdonald wrote:
> Ok I have come across a link that will allow me to get the most out of
> the graphics card on my laptop which is a Sis 760gx card. The link is
> http://www.winischhofer.eu/linuxsisvga.shtml
> 
> Now I have downloaded the file but it mentions stopping xorg, how do I
> do that, and when it comes to restarting how do I do that.
> 
> Ohhh I am running suse 10.2 on this laptop.
> 
> Cheers
> 
> Steve
> 
> 

Hi Steve,

The way I stop X is by editing /etc/inittab (you will need to be root to 
do this).  There will be a couple of lines near the top that would look 
something like:

# The default runlevel.
id:5:initdefault:

Now the runlevel where X gets started varies from distro (it used to be 
pretty standard, but Ubuntu has messed this up a bit), but is usually 4 
or up.  On Suse, try changing the 5 to a 3, which will not start the X 
on startup.  When you have done your command-line hacking, change this 
back to 5 and reboot again.

I am sure there are other ways too, but I find this pretty safe & simple.

Cheers,
Alex


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