blankanieves wants to stop X, so he can install a NVidia driver. He's on Mint or Debian.

He had Mint installed but mentioned that he recently (I think today) installed Debian:-
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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.

thats is what its says when i try to run the .run

root@debian:/# /etc/init.d/gdm3 stop
bash: /etc/init.d/gdm3: No such file or directory

and if I do xkill -all
or this https://wiki.debian.org/Xorg

I am in debian now

Try:

root@debian:/# /etc/init.d/gdm stop
bash: /etc/init.d/gdm: No such file or directory

but its gdm3 because i have stop it before but now i dont remenber how

Maybe somebody who knows more about Debian will notice this thread. I can't find the notes I made when I ran Debian, and had to install a NVidia driver.

now i realice that if a have lxde i can put gdm
i have to put lxdm
but i put /etc/init.d/lxdm stop
and it doest work fu"$"%$

sooo i kill x and do al the driver ask me like removind nouveau
and its says something like cc version check failed
kernel gcc 4.6 not 4.7
say that it have an error and dont install anything
so asuming that the driver was to new i try to install 173 driver but:
it doents install for some error

and now i am un debian gnome with a very basical theme and i dan really see videos but i dont have flashes

this is what happen when I try to install the driver I still with the problem

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http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux-d...37-driver.html
so that is the driver that work fine
but if anybody read this because have the same problem
you have to unintall nouveau before installing this

This Accelerated Open Source Driver for Nvidia sounds like it just needs to be uninstalled-
http://nouveau.freedesktop.org/wiki/

http://www.linux-archive.org/debian-...l-nouveau.html
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...driver-825432/

This Debian page should help. I sincerely hope that the knowledge and wisdom you find from these articles will be of help.
If you know the name of that old driver the remove command should remove i
https://wiki.debian.org/NvidiaGraphicsDrivers
http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?t=40712

Hope that helps-

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Thanks Ztcoracat i pormise to get a new video card when I can because this I really really hate XD

I ask my last question and i leave you in peace what video card would you recomend ?

Hi everyone, as I said in the title of my reply, I am having almost the same problems installing Ubuntu. I have a PC that I want to dedicate to the installation and use of Linux, I am ready to even installed as the only OS in this PC. I had windows XP on this machine but I want to just get rid of it and launch my Linux adventure but I am running in the situation that even though I follow all the instructions in the download page of Ubuntu.com, something is just not doing what it is suppossed to. After the downloading is done, and I get the icon for the application for Linux and click on it, nothing happens. Should I just format the driver, buy or burn a Linux CD or should I just keep looking around for a better download?

Any advice would be really appreciated.

PS. The reason I am posting this problem here is because I could not find a way of posting my questions in a new thread. I apologize for this inconvenience.

no problem chomito44 i had marked the treat as unsolved so people can help you i cant because i am a newbie but luck with that

maybe you have already tried this but try in the specific forum of ubuntu maybe somebody had your same problem
http://ubuntuforums.org/

but when i had installed a system and formating i had always do it from a CD or a USB maybe you have to try that