Well I do not understand what/when should I log in between two init5 and init 3?
I`m now in init5 and installed Nvidia driver should I be in init 3 to installed nvidia drive?
Thank you and please could one of you give the answer please;)
Michael
It is sometimes necessary to boot to level 3 to run X installers like nvidia. Like if you need to install the nvidia driver manually.
But most are just able to use the nvidia repo - in which case you don’t need to worry about it. Add the nvidia repo and install via yast.
Init 3 = When you wish all services to be up EXCEPT the graphical user interface.
Init 5 = When you want all services to be up AND have the graphical user interface.
Services that go “up” in both levels are for example networking, shares, servers etc.
On Tue, 2009-02-03 at 04:26 +0000, 1michael1 wrote:
> Well I do not understand what/when should I log in between two init5 and
> init 3?
3 and 5 represent runlevels. A runlevel merely defines an operational
state (mostly daemons that should be running).
On an openSUSE box, runlevel 3 will be full network with networking
services. Runlevel 5 is assumed to be everything in runlevel 3 with the
addition of a local X server managing (usually) a local display.
Runlevel (just as an aside) are not set in stone with the possible
exception of 1=single user, 6=reboot, 0=halt. So in case you’re on
a different Linux box, you can’t always expect runlevel 3 and 5 to
mean the same kind of operational state (end aside).
> I`m now in init5 and installed Nvidia driver should I be in init 3 to
> installed nvidia drive?
Init 3 doesn’t including a running X server… they’re just making
sure that no existing X server is running.
To change to init 3, go to vc 1 (the non graphical virtual console)
and type init 3 as root e.g.:
init 3
That will ensure you’re at run level 3. It’s possible that you only
have a virtual console screen (no graphics) even though you’re in
runlevel 5… so that might be a bit confusing. That doesn’t mean
there’s not something out there (like a desktop manager) that isn’t
consistently trying to bring up the X server (but usually not) when
in runlevel 5, which is why you WANT to go to runlevel 3 before
doing some kind of X setup.
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> Thank you and please could one of you give the answer please;)
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> Michael
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