On Sunday 15 December 2002 11:44 pm, Emre Tezel wrote: > How come no body answers my question :( > > Emre Tezel wrote: > > Hi Everyone, > > > > This is a really newbie question. I am trying to upgrade Xfree86 in my > > Red Hat 7.2 system, from 4.1.x to 4.2.0. In the installation notes, it > > is written that one should exit the Xsession and stop xdm, before > > running the installation script. How exactly is this done? > You can exit the X session by pressing the key combination control+alt+back space. If your computer is set to boot to a graphical log in you will just get back to that, if you boot to a text login you will be returned to the spot where you type "startx". Assuming you boot to a graphical login as most newbies do, you will need to edit the file: /etc/inittab (as root) look for the last line below: # # inittab This file describes how the INIT process should set up # the system in a certain run-level. # # Author: Miquel van Smoorenburg, <miquels@drinkel.nl.mugnet.org> # Modified for RHS Linux by Marc Ewing and Donnie Barnes # # Default runlevel. The runlevels used by RHS are: # 0 - halt (Do NOT set initdefault to this) # 1 - Single user mode # 2 - Multiuser, without NFS (The same as 3, if you do not have networking) # 3 - Full multiuser mode # 4 - unused # 5 - X11 # 6 - reboot (Do NOT set initdefault to this) # id:3:initdefault: If indeed you do boot up to the graphical login your line will read: id:3:initdefault: simply change the 5 to a 3 ans save the changes. When you now boot up you will see the text mode login prompt. simply log in there as either a normal user or as root. (just in case you don't know how to start an X session, the command is "startx") Now when you want to end your X session the above key combination will get you back to the text mode, loged on as whoever started the session. -- Regards, Ernie 100% Microsoft and Intel free _______________________________________________ Newbie@XFree86.Org *** To unsubscribe , or change message options, see: http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/newbie
