2 problems

[esplendido]

I can't switch from RL 5 to RL 3. I open a terminal and do su then PW; i am root. I do init 3 or telinit 3 and it just brings me to the next line in the terminal, why? I can only switch to init 1. I need this to work otherwise I can not install my video drivers.

My second problem is i have Downloaded the creative audio driver for x64 and yes I am running Deb x64 when i do ./installer it says must be a 64 bit OS but it is. why is this happening?

I have a Dell XPS 710. *NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTX video card and *Creative X-Fi Fatality Audio card. and this happens with any distro. I have a feeling my computer hardware is screwing things up It makes me want to buy a dell with Linux preinstalled so the Hardware was meant for it.

[devils casper]

Hi and Welcome !

I can't switch from RL 5 to RL 3. I open a terminal and do su then PW; i am root. I do init 3 or telinit 3 and it just brings me to the next line in the terminal, why? I can only switch to init 1. I need this to work otherwise I can not install my video drivers.

Press Alt+Ctrl+F1. It will drop you at command line login prompt. Log in and execute this

/etc/init.d/gdm stop

It will stop X Server. Execute commands to install Graphics Driver now.

My second problem is i have Downloaded the creative audio driver for x64 and yes I am running Deb x64 when i do ./installer it says must be a 64 bit OS but it is. why is this happening?

Execute this

uname -a
cat /etc/debian_version

Post output here.