InfSauce
September 24th, 2008, 06:42 AM
Hello all, I am new to linux, and I'm having a ball here trying to figure it all out... But anyway, just going to get down to the meat and potatoes.... I'm trying to install the NVIDIA-Linux-x86-173.14.12.pkg1.run (http://us.download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86/173.14.12/NVIDIA-Linux-x86-173.14.12-pkg1.run) driver for the Geforce 9600 GT graphics card. I been wrestling around with this for a few days now (amongst other things, like desperately trying to get "Eve" to run)... And I'm taking more steps back than forward it seems... I installed the most recent version of Ubuntu, the 8.0 something or other, and I cant get out of the Xserver, I tried the Cnt-Alt-F1, as well as Sudo /etc/init.d/gdm stop, but in spite of all this, the Xserver appears to remain running in the back ground, because when I try to install the driver using the command prompt, I still get the following error.
ERROR: You appear to be running an X server; please exit X before
installing. For further details, please see the section INSTALLING
THE NVIDIA DRIVER in the README available on the Linux driver
download page at www.nvidia.com.
ERROR: You appear to be running an X server; please exit X before
installing. For further details, please see the section INSTALLING
THE NVIDIA DRIVER in the README available on the Linux driver
download page at www.nvidia.com.