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Well this is sort of an odd problem, but here goes:
I recently built myself a backup computer/file server running Fedora 14, and I'm trying to install the NVidia driver. ...
- 11-30-2010 #1Just Joined!
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Well this is sort of an odd problem, but here goes:
I recently built myself a backup computer/file server running Fedora 14, and I'm trying to install the NVidia driver. For some reason, I can't seem to switch to console mode to save my f'ing life! Ctrl+Alt+F1 does nothing, as does the terminal command init 3. Seriously, I can't figure out for the life of me what could be causing this issue.
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make sure that if you do 'init 3' that you have root privileges, 'su' or 'sudo'.
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Yes, I'm quite aware of that. In point of fact, if you even try to execute an init command without root privileges, it will tell you to log in as root.
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It does nothing, as in no error messages or anything?
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Correct. Absolutely nothing.
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Did you try booting into runlevel 3 by editting the last line of /etc/inittab?
change:
toCode:id:5:initdefault:
Code:id:3:initdefault:
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