Jeff Lloyd wrote:

Now I have another question. And this will be the last as I know the
regulars and experienced get tired of such mundane questions from people
not in the know on this stuff.

I need a simple method of explanation of how NOT to boot into X. I am
learning slowly but surely, but the fact of the matter is that I need to
install video drivers from nVidia and I have to boot a certain way in
order to install them. Based on the docs from NVidia, my inittab file
is as follows, and I have cut and pasted what I THINK is relavent.

# 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:5:initdefault:

Now I can see that it is booting into X11. Fine. What do I change this
to in order to satisfy the installation of the NVidia drivers. Also,
when I am done, how do I edit this file in a command mode to get back to
X11?

Sorry for the stupid questions, but I will get this damn game running
one way or the other.

Thanks for any input.







> I am a Linux newbie, so I apologize for that right off the bat.
>
> I recently got the subject game and installed it on my system without
> incident. Upon installing it, there was no icon, no direction on how to run
> the game. I actually had to install the game while logged in as root. I am
> using the Gnome interface. My system is an Intel Pentium 4 Machine.
>
> Upon consulting the manual, it says "To run the game, enter heretic2 from
> the command line within X". (LOL)
>
> W H A T T H E H E L L I S "X" ????
>
> Better yet, did a search for "heretic2" on the entire hard drive and came up
> with nothing...
>
> I am beginning to feel really stupid using this OS...sorry for the sarcasm,
> but if anyone can set me strait I would greatly appreciate it.
>
> Thank you.
>
>