Installing Drivers?!?!

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popandbob Send message Joined: 18 Jul 07 Posts: 67 Credit: 40,277,822 RAC: 0 Level Scientific publications	Message 1285 - Posted: 20 Jul 2008 \| 21:14:01 UTC
	I keep getting the error that the "X server" is running... what is it and how do I stop it to install the drivers? I've googled it and saw: ctrl+alt+f1 sudo /ect/init.d/gdm stop but that is not working for me...
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Stefan Ledwina Send message Joined: 16 Jul 07 Posts: 464 Credit: 221,007,857 RAC: 4,333,521 Level Scientific publications	Message 1287 - Posted: 20 Jul 2008 \| 21:33:08 UTC
	Well, to help you it would be great to know which OS you use, and maybe also which graphics card? On Ubuntu you could try sudo init 1 But actually there are also some tools to install the drivers... If you use Fedora, go to rpm.livna.org, and in the repository RPMS section click on the repository RPM which fits for your Version of Fedora, this will add the livna repositories to your download sources. Then open a Terminal and type su yum install kmod-nvidia Reboot and that's it, the right drivers should get loaded at boot... If you use Ubuntu you could go to Software Sources, and make sure 3rd party repositories are checked. then you can start the Synaptic package manager and do a search for envy - this is a graphical tool to install the nvidia drivers... Hope this helps a little bit! Stefan ____________ pixelicious.at - my little photoblog
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popandbob Send message Joined: 18 Jul 07 Posts: 67 Credit: 40,277,822 RAC: 0 Level Scientific publications	Message 1288 - Posted: 20 Jul 2008 \| 22:33:45 UTC - in response to Message 1287.
	Well, to help you it would be great to know which OS you use, and maybe also which graphics card? On Ubuntu you could try sudo init 1 But actually there are also some tools to install the drivers... If you use Ubuntu you could go to Software Sources, and make sure 3rd party repositories are checked. then you can start the Synaptic package manager and do a search for envy - this is a graphical tool to install the nvidia drivers... Hope this helps a little bit! Stefan Sorry I was in a bit of a rush posting that. It is Ubuntu that I use and the card is an 8600gts 512mb I searched for envy and downloaded the envy core but it wont run?!?! I will try the sudo init 1
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Stefan Ledwina Send message Joined: 16 Jul 07 Posts: 464 Credit: 221,007,857 RAC: 4,333,521 Level Scientific publications	Message 1289 - Posted: 20 Jul 2008 \| 22:37:16 UTC
	You'll also need envy-gtk, this will create a new entry in the Applications/System tools menu called Envy, start it, and pick the driver you would like to install - the rest should be self explaining... ;) ____________ pixelicious.at - my little photoblog
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popandbob Send message Joined: 18 Jul 07 Posts: 67 Credit: 40,277,822 RAC: 0 Level Scientific publications	Message 1290 - Posted: 20 Jul 2008 \| 22:48:20 UTC - in response to Message 1289. Last modified: 20 Jul 2008 \| 23:02:56 UTC
	You'll also need envy-gtk, this will create a new entry in the Applications/System tools menu called Envy, start it, and pick the driver you would like to install - the rest should be self explaining... ;) That makes more sence now :) I tried the sudo init 1 and it gave me some I/O error on device loop 0 and rcS-sulogin main process terminated with status 2 Thx for the help EDIT Envy is having an error on install... it couldn't access lock /var/lib/dpkg/lock 2nd Edit Guess one has to close the package manager first :)
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