Re: Xfree and DRM

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On 26 Feb 2003, Eric Esterle wrote:

>I have a question for you.  In your opinion would it be better to say NO
>for the radeon module in the kernel and put the radeon.o module in
>/lib/modules/kernel-version/misc *or* to say M (Module) for the radeon.o
>and put it in the folder
>/lib/modules/kernel-version/kernel/drivers/char/drm ?

It would be better for you to use the DRM module that comes in 
the Red Hat official kernel.

>I also wanted to ask about using the command telinit to change run
>levels in Redhat.  I always want to start up X when my machine boots but
>to get out of X when in a session I have been doing: CONTROL-ALT-F2 to
>get to a shell and then as root I run /sbin/telinit 3 to change to run
>level 3.  The problem I have been having in doing this is that there are
>all sorts of garbled characters on the screen once I change run levels. 
>This is in a stock Redhat 8 system.  CONTROL-ALT-BACKSPACE just kills
>the X session and puts me at the login screen.  I realize this is day 1
>of using linux but the Redhat 8 book I have says to use the telinit
>command like I have above.

You can just type "init 3" to go to runlevel 3.


-- 
Mike A. Harris     ftp://people.redhat.com/mharris
OS Systems Engineer - XFree86 maintainer - Red Hat



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