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A friend of mine said the CentOS is the best Linux to set a video effects terminal developer.
But I can not find enough information for newbie users.
I'm trying now to install a Gforce driver and it says there is a "X server" running and can not be installed, I've tried put the servers down using
netsat -tap
to list the servers and "/service x stop" to stop but does not work.
The X server is the graphical prettiness that you see. You need to shut that down and go to a tty (command line only) to install the gforce driver. Easiest way is to use Ctrl+Alt+F1-7 to get to a tty (one of them will be X, the other 6 should be ttys), log in as root, run "init 3", then navigate to the file you downloaded and run it with sh (eg: sh NVIDIA-linux-...). When it's done, use "init 5" to restart X, and use Ctrl+Alt+F1-7 to get back to X.
you are about to have a LOT of problems !!!
CentOS 6.5 shipps wit hthe OPENSOURCE "nouveau" driver installed you can NOT just install the nvidia.run driver !!!!
you must blacklist the nouveau driver and REBUILD !!! the "boot image"
--- FIRST ---
then and only then can you install the nvidia.run driver
this is very well documented in the redhat documentation
( centos6 uses the redhat docs on the redhat web site)
I personally in this situation would test-drive a Live DVD/USB of a user-friendly distro such as Linux Mint. You might find that it just magically works.
you can NOT just install the nvidia.run driver !!!!
That fits my experience.
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you must blacklist the nouveau driver
And the instructions nvidia.run gives you for blacklisting, don't work in Centos.
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and REBUILD !!! the "boot image"
But I wouldn't know how and didn't need to.
I edited /boot/grub/grub.conf to blacklist nouveau on the line that loads the kernel (that works, where the nvidia suggested method of blacklisting fails). Then rebooted to init 3 and nvidia.run was fine.
Actually, I made two different versions of the section in grub.conf so I can no select nvidia or nouveau at boot time.
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