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Old 10-18-2006, 07:48 AM   #1
RetepNamenots
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How to switch off all X-Servers..


I just found the nVidia graphic drivers for my graphics card, and I'm trying to install them at the moment. However, the error that I'm getting tells me that I need to switch off all the X-Servers that I am running. How do I go about this?

I am running SUSE 10.1...
 
Old 10-18-2006, 08:18 AM   #2
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run "init 3" as root to drop to runlevel three. this is only temporary and will not persist across a boot. you can also get back to full x login mode with "init 5" once you are done. you don't really need to do any of that in my epxerience... just better safe than sorry i guess.
 
Old 10-19-2006, 03:01 PM   #3
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Thanks, it's worked now and the drivers have been installed
 
Old 10-19-2006, 03:53 PM   #4
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no probs petey.
 
  


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