peman Posted March 31, 2004 Report Share Posted March 31, 2004 boot w/o bootsplash and vga to normal. Good old black and white Oh, it is an nvidia issue. Happens to me. In your bootloader config change splash=silent to splash=quiet and change vga= 788 (usually) to vga=normal Linux is useless without a console. Hi Thanks for help, i tried to change what you said in my etc/lilo.conf but it didnt have any effect. Its still just like on a TV with black and white (Like ant warriors :) ) It not when i boot up my PC its only when i shutdown my PC... Whats the problem? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aRTee Posted April 2, 2004 Report Share Posted April 2, 2004 What is the difference between starting Gnome with init 5 and starting it with startx? Read this question, it occurred to me what is technically the difference: starting with startx means you are in init3 starting with init 5 is done by root on the console/non-graphics mode. BTW that should just give you the login screen, right? Or do you use autologon? Does that session then run as root? (in which case I can only say: don't!) chkconfig --list will tell you what extra things get started, when going from init 3 to 5; you may have to run that command as root, not sure. As which user would you do startx? Also, realise that the first user to log onto the console gets the audio and video devices attributed to him/her, afaik... 0600 is not necessarily bad, if the owner is your user... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr. Ephemeron Posted April 3, 2004 Author Report Share Posted April 3, 2004 (edited) Read this question, it occurred to me what is technically the difference: starting with startx means you are in init3 Yep, that is right. starting with init 5 is done by root on the console/non-graphics mode. BTW that should just give you the login screen, right? Or do you use autologon? Does that session then run as root? (in which case I can only say: don't!) I boot into non-graphics mode and then log in as root and then enter init 5 and Gnome starts. (I have to be root to run init 5.) Gnome does not run as root though, just as a regular user. chkconfig --listwill tell you what extra things get started, when going from init 3 to 5; you may have to run that command as root, not sure. As which user would you do startx? I just log in as a regular user and do a startx. This is what I normally do so I don't have a console open logged in as root. Also, realise that the first user to log onto the console gets the audio and video devices attributed to him/her, afaik...0600 is not necessarily bad, if the owner is your user... Edited April 3, 2004 by Dr. Ephemeron Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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