Do the following: as root: init s install the nvida drivers init 5 Basically this shuts the system down to single user mode which does not have the graphical interface running. You can then install the nvidia drivers because the xserver is not running. The init 5 will put the system back into full multiuser mode and the xserver will be running. NOTE: this will log you out. Mike Steve Reilly wrote:
Hi, ' Normally, i have no problem with kernel updates and re installing my nvidia driver, but this time is quite the problem.
i have "wget" the latest nvidia driver, init 3, but when i go to sh install it, i keep getting an xserver is running. i checked tty1-8 and the only one that has anything resembling an xserver is 7. but you cannot kill it!!!! it is a blue screen, and says "the x server is now disabled" (which would mean to the average person, that there is no xserver running, correct?) restart gdm when it is configured correctly. then it has an <ok> below that, you cannot click ok, and you also cannot <ctrl> <alt> <bksp> that doesnt work.
is there a way to init 3 all 7 at the same time from wherever you are logged in?
there is a cursor blinking further down the screen, but you cannot move it up to the <ok>........any clues as to where i can go next?
thank you
steve
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