On 08/06/2015, David Wright <deb...@lionunicorn.co.uk> wrote: > Quoting Bret Busby (bret.bu...@gmail.com): >> The telinit s command, whilst taking the computer to single user mode, >> unfortunately did not turn off the GUI, so I still got the same error. > > It would appear that there's some sort of disagreement over > terminology here. X will not be running while in single user mode (by > which we mean a single login as root. It'll still be installed and > configured to run when you're not in single user mode. > > But let's just make things simple. Stop worrying about getting into > single user mode from the machine's normal running configuration. > Just reboot. Select single user mode from the grub menu. That's the > answer to your Subject line. > > Now run your script, preferably after starting "script" so you capture > the output. If you have the same problem, viz "You appear to be running > xserver. Exit xserver and try again", then post that problem under > an appropriate subject line and you might start to make progress in > the actual problem area. > > Cheers, > David. >
Hello. The only available boot option, apart from the normal boot mode, in the GRUB menu, for Debian 6, was the recovery mode, so I booted into that, changed to the appropriate directory, and ran the sh command to try to install the driver. The error message referred to the log file; " :~# cat /var/log/nvidia-installer.log nvidia-installer log file '/var/log/nvidia-installer.log' creation time: Wed Jun 10 22:53:51 2015 installer version: 346.72 PATH: /sbin:/usr/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin nvidia-installer command line: ./nvidia-installer Using: nvidia-installer ncurses user interface -> Detected 8 CPUs online; setting concurrency level to 8. -> License accepted. -> Installing NVIDIA driver version 346.72. ERROR: Unable to find the development tool `cc` in your path; please make sure that you have the package 'gcc' installed. If gcc is installed on your system, then please check that `cc` is in your PATH. ERROR: Installation has failed. Please see the file '/var/log/nvidia-installer.log' for details. You may find suggestions on fixing installation problems in the README available on the Linux driver download page at www.nvidia.com. " I searched the README on the nvidia web site, and could not find any reference to this problem, so I do not know how to deal with that problem. I note that the web page at https://wiki.debian.org/NvidiaGraphicsDrivers which refers only to Debian versions 7 and 8, and, not to 6, includes reference to running the command $ lspci -nn | grep VGA which returned " :~# lspci -nn | grep VGA 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Intel Corporation Device [8086:0416] (rev 06) " and the nvidia-detect package appears to be not available for Debian 6. >From lshw, is " *-pci description: Host bridge product: Intel Corporation vendor: Intel Corporation physical id: 100 bus info: pci@0000:00:00.0 version: 06 width: 32 bits clock: 33MHz *-pci:0 description: PCI bridge product: Intel Corporation vendor: Intel Corporation physical id: 1 bus info: pci@0000:00:01.0 version: 06 width: 32 bits clock: 33MHz capabilities: pci pm msi pciexpress normal_decode bus_master cap_list configuration: driver=pcieport resources: irq:24 ioport:4000(size=4096) memory:d2000000-d2ffffff ioport:a0000000(size=536870912) *-display UNCLAIMED description: 3D controller product: nVidia Corporation vendor: nVidia Corporation physical id: 0 bus info: pci@0000:01:00.0 version: a1 width: 64 bits clock: 33MHz capabilities: pm msi pciexpress cap_list configuration: latency=0 resources: memory:d2000000-d2ffffff memory:a0000000-afffffff(prefetchable) memory:b0000000-b1ffffff(prefetchable) ioport:4000(size=128) memory:b2000000-b207ffff(prefetchable) *-display UNCLAIMED description: VGA compatible controller product: Intel Corporation vendor: Intel Corporation physical id: 2 bus info: pci@0000:00:02.0 version: 06 width: 64 bits clock: 33MHz capabilities: msi pm vga_controller bus_master cap_list configuration: latency=0 resources: memory:d3000000-d33fffff memory:c0000000-cfffffff(prefetchable) ioport:5000(size=64) " I think I may have posted the lspci output, and the lshw output, from Debian 7, on this computer, previously, when I had tried to get the external monitor working with Debian 7, on this computer. -- Bret Busby Armadale West Australia .............. "So once you do know what the question actually is, you'll know what the answer means." - Deep Thought, Chapter 28 of Book 1 of "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: A Trilogy In Four Parts", written by Douglas Adams, published by Pan Books, 1992 .................................................... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/cacx6j8nk6zihwjpz2x2rgwmvf8o-cpgsp1zplmkq8dwfh5l...@mail.gmail.com