-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The Sunday 2006-09-17 at 10:26 -0700, Steve Reilly wrote:

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.

Never seen that.

is there a way to init 3 all 7 at the same time from wherever you are logged in?

If you have changed your display manager (gdm, wdm, xdm) while X is running, the old display manager is not killed. I mean, it trys to kill kdm while you have gdm running, for instance. It has to be killed manually ("ps afx| less", etc.). You can also reboot into level 3, typing a "3" at the grub prompt. The change is for that session only. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.76 iD8DBQFFDZdltTMYHG2NR9URAsjcAJ4iImcC76z0TrhAE85M4NwFaHEzAwCfeS1c xjb4AZnbQx24A67g6NQIPQE= =D9lk -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

I got this too.  If you look at your nvidia log file, you will find that the "x server is running issue" is because you still have an X lock file present in your /tmp directory. try something like: telinit 3 rm -rf /tmp/.X* before installing the nvidia driver. mike. On Sunday 17 September 2006 13:26, 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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