nvidia/linux and x server

[heedoyiu]

this is a noob question but as soon as i run nvidia it wants me
to shut off x server i was told to enter init 3 but then my comp crashed
any ideas?

 

[Nothinman]

Expand on 'crashed'.

 

[heedoyiu]

well like i went into to gnome and did it and maybe i was in the wrong terminal
so i tried it in x terminal and when it rebooted it just enabled itself again

 

[nweaver]

not sure on Suse's init levels, but you need to ctrl+alt+F2 to get to a terminal, login (as root, to install nv drivers, iirc) and kill theX server (ps aux | grep X to find it, kill <PID> to kill it). then run the installer. If gnome restarts, you may need to type "telinit 3" or "telinit 2" before killing the X server.

 

[drag]

Originally posted by: nweaver
not sure on Suse's init levels, but you need to ctrl+alt+F2 to get to a terminal, login (as root, to install nv drivers, iirc) and kill theX server (ps aux | grep X to find it, kill <PID> to kill it). then run the installer. If gnome restarts, you may need to type "telinit 3" or "telinit 2" before killing the X server.

Suse follows the same conventions as Redhat and Fedora I beleive.

Telinit 3 will shut off your GUI. So if you run telinit from your desktop it will kick you off and make the screen go black and such.

You need to switch to a vitual console by going ctrl-alt-f2 and log in and then run the commands that nvidia told you to run.
Once the install is finished then you can go:
telinit 5
and if the install went correctly everything should start back up and you should be able to log into the graphical gui.

To get back into the gui after hitting ctrl-alt-f2 normally you'd hit ctrl-alt-f7

 

[heedoyiu]

wow it worked yet now it says i need to compile the kernal CRAP!!!
has anyone else got it to work on other distros without trying to compile the damn kernal

 

[AnonymouseUser]

Assuming IA32, this should help.

 

[heedoyiu]

no way nvrmind it works this is awesome counter strike plays!!!
thanks a lot you guys