Turn X Windows off
Ric Moore
wayward4now at gmail.com
Wed Oct 31 08:14:25 UTC 2007
On Mon, 2007-10-29 at 14:45 -0600, Karl Larsen wrote:
> I have the latest Nvidia for this computer and it is a run file. No
> problem there but it will only work if X windows is off. Is there a
> simple way to put yourself in level 3 and then run the thing in a directory?
>
> Now it seems the rescue CD might be the way...
Just open a terminal window in X and type, as root, init 3
Easy. Run the script as I mentioned privately. Once done in text just
cntl-alt-del to reboot if you saw no errors during the install process.
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