nVidia Drivers

[Colin J Thomson]

On Tuesday 28 Sep 2004 00:37, Richard E Miles 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?
> >
> > John
>
> restart in level 3 as root
> init 3
> login as root
> then run the script
> after completion of nvidia sript
> startx

Yes.. BUT before you startx (init 5) remember you have to edit your 
xorg.conf.

Comment out dri:
#       Load  "dri"
and change the driver to :
Driver      "nvidia"

This should be enough to get you up and running, and restarting X you should 
see the NVidia logo.

HTH 

Colin
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