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Installation issues / Re: Geforce 6600 GT

« on: April 09, 2007, 02:12:34 pm »

I forgot to add: If you kill the X with ctrl+alt+backspace, it just tries to restart gdm automatically. If you want to kill gdm completely, you must wait it to restart and kill it again a few times, so it gives up and stays down.

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Installation issues / Re: Geforce 6600 GT

« on: April 09, 2007, 02:09:07 pm »

You are doing it all wrong. The easiest and most compatible way to kill gdm and install Nvidia drivers is like this:

1) press ctrl+alt+F1 (this brings you the text-based login outside the X)
2) command "sudo /etc/init.d/gdm stop" if you use ubuntu, and "sudo /etc/init.d/kdm stop" if you use kubuntu
3) now you have no X running and can install the Nvidia-drivers by commanding "sudo sh NVIDIA..." completing the package name which you are installing