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problems installing new video drivers on linux for nvida

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Nab

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I'm having trouble installing updated nvidia drivers. I know how to get out of X server but the problem is I dont know how to get back into it. Thanks in advance.
 
well generally you type in "startx" from the command line to startx.

However if the computer is trying run a graphical login manager like KDM or GDM then it's gonna fail.

Logs of X startups can be found in /var/log

They will tell you of any errors or warnings. Errors are preceded by the EE and warnings are indicated by WW.
 
If you are using the login manager like drag mentioned, you can always drop down to runlevel 3( #init 3), and back up to runlevel 5 (#init 5)for an easy way to get you login manager back to handling Xsessions. If you are having that problem, you need to change the driver to "nvidia" in the /etc/X11/XF86Config(-4) file.
 
The way I do it is:

Change to runlevel 3 using 'telinit 3'
login as root, install driver, make X86Config change
Change to runlevel 5 using 'telinit 5'
login as user
 
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