Installing Nvidia drivers

lonecrow · 10-26-2007, 04:55 PM

I am trying my best to install these drivers, but they are kinda pissing me off now... I am talking about the drivers I downloaded from Nvidia, not the restricted drivers that Ubuntu installs by default.

Now, it tells me when I run

Code:

sudo ./Nvidia_DRIVER.sh

that there is an occurence of X running. So I switch to Init 1, only to be told that Init 1 one could be hazardous because of some services not fired up. It tells me to switch to telinit3. Which Ive done, only to be told that X was running :@

How could I go about this?

Thanks!

custangro · 10-26-2007, 05:01 PM

Have you tried booting into runlevel 3? Or did you just switch from 5 to 3? Try booting into 3 by editing you /etc/inittab file

lonecrow · 10-26-2007, 05:29 PM

Werid... /etc/inittab doesnt exist...

Code:

matt@AQUARIUS:~$ ls /etc/
acpi                    group                pam.conf
adduser.conf            group-               pam.d
adjtime                 grub.d               pango
aliases                 gshadow              papersize
alternatives            gshadow-             passwd
anacrontab              gtk-2.0              passwd-
apm                     hal                  pcmcia
apparmor                hdparm.conf          perl
apparmor.d              hesiod.conf          pnm2ppa.conf
apport                  host.conf            popularity-contest.conf
apt                     hostname             power
at.deny                 hosts                ppp
avahi                   hosts.allow          printcap
bash.bashrc             hosts.deny           profile
bash_completion         hotplug              protocols
bash_completion.d       hp                   pulse
belocs                  init.d               purple
bindresvport.blacklist  initramfs-tools      python
blkid.tab               inputrc              python2.5
bluetooth               iproute2             rc0.d
bogofilter.cf           issue                rc1.d
bonobo-activation       issue.net            rc2.d
brlapi.key              java                 rc3.d
brltty                  kde3                 rc4.d
brltty.conf             kernel-img.conf      rc5.d
calendar                laptop-mode          rc6.d
chatscripts             ldap                 rc.local
compizconfig            ld.so.cache          rcS.d
console-setup           ld.so.conf           readahead
console-tools           ld.so.conf.d         resolvconf
cron.d                  lftp.conf            resolv.conf
cron.daily              libao.conf           rmt
cron.hourly             libgda-3.0           rpc
cron.monthly            libpaper.d           samba
crontab                 locale.alias         sane.d
cron.weekly             localtime            scim
cups                    logcheck             screenrc
dbus-1                  login.defs           scrollkeeper.conf
debconf.conf            logrotate.conf       securetty
debian_version          logrotate.d          security
default                 lsb-base             services
defoma                  lsb-base-logging.sh  sgml
deluser.conf            lsb-release          shadow
devfs                   ltrace.conf          shadow-
dhcp3                   magic                shells
dictionaries-common     magic.mime           skel
discover.conf           mailcap              sound
discover.conf-2.6       mailcap.order        ssh
discover.d              manpath.config       ssl
dpkg                    mediaprm             sudoers
emacs                   menu-methods         sysctl.conf
environment             mime.types           syslog.conf
esound                  mke2fs.conf          terminfo
event.d                 modprobe.d           timezone
fdmount.conf            modules              ucf.conf
firefox                 modutils             udev
fonts                   mono                 uniconf.conf
foomatic                motd                 updatedb.conf
fstab                   motd.tail            update-notifier
fuse.conf               mtab                 usplash.conf
gai.conf                mysql                vim
gamin                   nanorc               w3m
gconf                   Net                  wgetrc
gdm                     netscsid.conf        wodim.conf
gimp                    network              wpa_supplicant
gnome                   NetworkManager       wvdial.conf
gnome-app-install       networks             X11
gnome-system-tools      nsswitch.conf        xdg
gnome-vfs-2.0           openalrc             xml
gnome-vfs-mime-magic    openoffice           zsh_command_not_found
groff                   opt

lonecrow · 10-26-2007, 06:56 PM

bump please

billymayday · 10-26-2007, 07:15 PM

from a console as root (or sudo), try init 1. I think in Ubuntu, 3 is the same as 5

lonecrow · 10-26-2007, 07:17 PM

I said earlier that it doesnt work.

Found this and it works. sudo /etc/init.d/gdm stop