* Jack Slade [Tue, 11 May 2004 at 09:28 -0600] <quote> > I have found a 64-bit driver for my nvidia graphics card running Suse 9.0. I > run the driver using the sh command and it comes up telling me I have X > server running and I need to exit out of it before the driver will install. > I can find the command line commands to kill a process. Is this the best > way? Is there a cleaner way of exiting out of X, or is the command line > killing of the process the way to go? (something akin to the old starting > windows in ms-dos mode, maybe?) > > Jack Slade > [EMAIL PROTECTED] </quote>
Probably the easiest thing to do would be to start up in single user mode to setup the drivers, then reboot back into normal mode. If you're using lilo, then just do the kernel name followed by single, i.e. 'Linux single'. That way X won't be started. Or if you know where your init scripts are (/etc/init.d/ for debian) and you know what display manager you're running (i.e. xdm) then you could just type as root '/etc/init.d/xdm stop' and when you're done '/etc/init.d/xdm start'. Hope that helps.
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