[wellylug] Sis 760gx setup

[Jethro Carr]

On Mon, 2007-01-29 at 09:47 +1300, Alex Thomson wrote:
> 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.


there's a MUCH easier way, which doesn't require a reboot. :-)

1) Log out of X (gnome/kde/whatever)

2) Press: CTL+ALT+F1

3) Login as root

4) run init 3

5) Do your stuff

6) run init 5

and you'll be back at X.

Step 2 takes you to the CLI. Step 4 takes you to run level 3, which
kills the GUI. step 6 takes you to run level 5 which starts the gui.


The only time you should reboot a Linux box is to change the kernel -
everything else can be restarted as a service. :-)


-- 
Jethro Carr

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