Neemoe Posted February 7, 2004 Report Share Posted February 7, 2004 when installing nivdia drivers it wants (the system) me to exit X server... ok here's the dumb ? how do I do that? neemoe Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
D'Espice Posted February 7, 2004 Report Share Posted February 7, 2004 Assuming you're running Mandrake, you'll need to kill mdkkdm. Log in as root and type "killall -9 mdkkdm". Then install the driver, configure it and afterwards start mdkkdm again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sherington Posted February 7, 2004 Report Share Posted February 7, 2004 What I usually do is to use a terminal login rather than the graphical login. Press ctrl+alt+f1 to get to a login prompt. Login as root. Type "init 3", without the quotes. This will, amongst other things, shut down the window manager. Then run your nvidia installation package. Reboot, or type "init 5" and press ctrl+alt+f7 to get back to the graphical login. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bvc Posted February 7, 2004 Report Share Posted February 7, 2004 this was just asked 4 days ago. http://www.mandrakeusers.org/index.php?sho...t=0entry90547 Why not properly logout? Why not properly stop the dm service? Kill it? sure, there are many ways to do it and all should be w/o ill effect.....i'm just anal I guess ^_^ :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neutro Posted February 7, 2004 Report Share Posted February 7, 2004 I think the easiest way as stated before is simply to go to runlevel 3, running the installer, and going back to runlevel 5. No need to even change virtual console; open a terminal console (e.g. konsole), type "su" and enter the root password, then "telinit 3" (you should use telinit instead of init if I remember right, but yet, I don't remember why exactly :)). Once in runlevel 3, login as root, run the installer, and type "telinit 5" to go back to runlevel 5. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bvc Posted February 7, 2004 Report Share Posted February 7, 2004 you just about perform the same amount of steps regardles of how you do it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
javaguy Posted February 8, 2004 Report Share Posted February 8, 2004 Just a general comment...If you're having trouble installing the Invidia drivers, you're in very good company. It certainly doesn't mean you're "dumb." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BobGuy© Posted February 9, 2004 Report Share Posted February 9, 2004 Nvidia driver installation is a snap I see quite a few folks having problems installing the Nvidia rpms. This Mini-How-To takes less than 15 MInutes and you get a custom compiled driver to boot. http://www.linuxloader.com/modules.php?nam...=showpage&pid=6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neemoe Posted February 9, 2004 Author Report Share Posted February 9, 2004 Dudes, I got the drivers in and it seems to be running great. Although am new to Linux. I sure like it a lot. Soon will drop XPee altogether. Again thanks for all the Help. This is one of many reasons i like Linux... the people!! Neemoe :libranet: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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