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Old 08-16-2004, 12:06 PM   #1
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Default X-Windows must DIE!
Just a quick question:

I am using Mandrake 10.0 and wanted to install the latest drivers for my TNT2 card. The documentation states that you must close down x-windows but doesnt give a clue as to how to do it. There doesn't seem to be any apparent option for shutting it down, and when I reboot in "failsafe" mode, it won't allow me to run the driver software. Does anyone know the command that I need?

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Old 08-16-2004, 12:11 PM   #2
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Depending on how you have it running, CTRL-ALT-BACKSPACE will exit out, but it might come back up. Otherwise, just change to a different console and use the kill command.
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Old 08-16-2004, 12:19 PM   #3
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What is X-Windows?















Hint: It's X, XFree86, X Window System. It's NOT Windows. Windows is something completely different... :-)
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Old 08-16-2004, 12:24 PM   #4
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Hiya, chances are you are booting into a display manager, and you are in runlevel 5 (disclaimer: I have never used Mandrake). You can try two things, as root:

# /etc/init.d/xdm stop

xdm might be called wdm, kdm, or gdm depending on setup. It's more than likely kdm or gdm. Or you can try:

# init 3

That will put you in runlevel 3 which, in Linux excepting Debian and some others, is multi-user with no display manager. This will kill X as well.

CTRL-ALT-BACKSPACE with a display manager will just bring you to the display manager login screen, with X still running. If you put it into runlevel three to install the driver, do "init 5" to start the display manager back up.

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Old 08-16-2004, 12:26 PM   #5
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@Piru
There's no need to be pedantic.

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CTRL-ALT-BACKSPACE takes me back to the login screen.
If I use the "kill" command what should follow it (pid?)
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Old 08-16-2004, 12:37 PM   #6
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"init 3" did the trick. Thanks.

The problem now is that I get "Permission Denied" when I run the driver (as root)- anybody had any experience installing the NVidia display driver within Linux? Any further help would be muchly appreciated.

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I have the NVidia driver installed, but I installed it from SuSE's package manager.
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Try "sh nvidia_driver_filename", or chmod a+x the driver first, and it should work. It's almost certainly just not set executable.
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Old 08-16-2004, 01:13 PM   #9
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I've managed to get it to work. The problem was in the driver file's properties: "is executable" was unchecked in "Permissions". Checking it instantly solved the problem.

Thanks to all of you

Now I have 3d accelerated lovliness!
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