Hi,
I should explain my situation a little further: I would like to install the software drivers for the mentioned graphics cards to enable better support for playing games as the officially supported ones don't allow games such as quake to run. I have read about the undesirable effects of installing the drivers found on the Nvidia or Ati web sites but am willing to try them because I have used a live distro called Sabayon using the mentioned graphics cards and all was well with quake.
Using the help that you have kindly given I have tried to turn off the X server using 'sudo /etc/init.d/gdm stop', this seemed to work but all I have is a black screen so I still cant install the drivers.
I know I am missing something any help please
When I run the Nvidia script to install the drivers I get the following error message:
ERROR: You appear to be running an X server; please exit X before
installing. For further details, please see the section INSTALLING
THE NVIDIA DRIVER in the README available on the Linux driver
download page at
www.nvidia.com.
I have visited the Nvidia site but couldn't find any help with the correct way to install these drivers.
Thanks in advance for any help
Den