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Originally posted by Tears Of Blood
lol...what is this root you speak of?
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root is the
super-user. the system adminsitrator. it's the only account on the system that can MODIFY the system and do whatever it wants (this also translates into "only root can damage the system" and applies to viruses and all that stuff) you need to be root whenever you have to do something to the system, such as installing a video driver, or configuring a hard drive, for example... whenever you are root, you have the power to do incredible damage, this is why you NEVER do anything as root unless you have to (as is the case with the nvidia driver)...
to "become root", open a terminal and type "su" and hit enter... it'll prompt you for your root password...
as was mentioned, you need to be in multi-user mode (without X) to install the nvidia driver...
on slackware, multi-user mode is runlevel 3, so you'd type in a terminal (as root):
init 3
that would stop the graphics server and drop you to a console... then you can run the nvidia installation (as root)... i'm not sure what the runlevel is on your distro, though... what distro are you using?? adding it to your lq profile is a good idea...
you can see the runlevel numbers in your
/etc/inittab file...