installing nvidia drivers
Hi all,
I am running Debian 'testing' I have downloaded a driver for my NVidia Gforce 7 series graphics card: NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-9746-pkg1.run However, when I run sh ./NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-9746-pkg1.run I got the error that I am running X session, and I need to quit it first. Fair enough, it seems logical, however, how am I supposed to exit it to run the installation program. thanks sycamorex |
When your in your X server, logout, then on the loging screen press CTRL+ALT+F1.
Here login as normal user or root, type: ps aux | grep gdm now type: kill xxxxx (replace xxxxx , by the PID as shown by ps aux) Now from that same console, install your NVIDIA driver! |
You can log out, switch to a virtual terminal, log into the terminal and switch to the "Full Multiuser with Network" init level. I think that debian might use different run level than the distro I use. If you don't know which one to use, look in your /etc/inittab file:
Code:
# runlevel 1 is Single user mode |
Thanks guys,
I managed to do it and everything seems fine |
you should run:
glxinfo | grep direct just to make sure 3d accelaration has been activated :). |
Thanks, yes it is active:)
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There are also the following commands that you can run from a root console:
/etc/init.d/gdm stop /etc/init.d/gdm start /etc/init.d/gdm restart |
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