avoid nvidia?

[Robert P. J. Day]

On Thu, 4 Dec 2003, Michael E. Adams wrote:

> I have been using the Nvidia driver for my Dell 8100 and its GeForce2 GO
> video card through several flavors of Linux. Redhat, SuSE and now
> Fedora. I never have had any problems. Once Fedora is installed and
> running correctly:
> 
> 1. Down-load the driver from Nvidia.
> 2. As user root (or su) edit the line in the /etc/inittab file that
> reads 'id:5:initdefault' to read 'id:3:initdefault'. (leave out the
> single quotes)
> 3. Reboot (the x-server will not start up)

you could just switch to runlevel 3 with 

# init 3

do all your work, and switch back with

# init 5

no need to mess with /etc/inittab and rebooting.

rday