nVidia Drivers

Kent Nyberg nyberg.kent at spray.se
Mon Sep 27 21:14:55 UTC 2004


mån 2004-09-27 klockan 23.08 skrev Adam Mercer:
> John Chapman wrote:
> > I have an nVidia FX5200 video card and I have downloaded its drivers
> > from nVidia.  When I try to run the installer it says I need to stop
> > the X Server.  How do I stop the X Server?
> 
> while logged in as root on a virtual terminal, switch to run-level 3
> 
>  > telinit 3
> 
> when you're done installing the drivers and modifying the X config 
> return to run-level 5
> 
>  > telinit 5
> 
> Cheers
> 
> Adam



And if you're not interested in learning technical stuff about X, then a
simple reboot would work just as well.






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