well, had some time trying to figure this out
unable to stop x; init 1 was not enough for the nvidia driver, or so it said; it recommended init 3 which then gave me a blank screen (apparently graphical, ie it looks same as when it switches from text to graphics when booting up normally)
i used the recovery mode boot and mounted my home partition to access the driver
the driver said something about not being able to run the distribution provided script associated with nvidia (?) this time i said ok, go ahead anyways, and it installed fine, apparently
no problems
did i miss out on something?
why was it so hard to do?
how do i stop the xserver ... no 'gdm' in init.d directory
kill x didn't do it either, the nvidia driver still said some xserver was running
ctrlaltbksp doesn't do it either
so tired of trying to install linux... on my 25th installation in 2 days it seems like
decided to settle for linux mint 12 because it is new and popular and i like the look, and it seems to work... now, to watch a movie and crash...
later
anyways... mostly curious, kinda po'd
Installing nvida driver in LIinux mint 12
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jamvaru
Installing nvida driver in LIinux mint 12
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jamvaru
Re: Installing nvida driver in LIinux mint 12
well, the darn thing crashed on me, irrevocably fracked
so, i decided to try kororaa, cause the little blue penguin is cute and stuff
i will try lm again but im going with the lte instead...
it seems like it might have been the new nvidiaa driver... i tried the newest one from the website, instead of the recommended one from the 'applet' for additional drivers..... what happened was the little icon dissappeared from the toolbar on the top, next to the volume icon... i forgot where it was in the menu, cause the new gnome menu sucks, so i just got it from nvidia, but my video card is really old and doesn't like the newest drivers (at least in windows), every time, always have to stay one version behind...
anyways, i forget what happened, something like the gnometweaker tool disappeared, so i tried rebooting, and fubar... it wouldn't even reboot
anywayss, i gave up
later (i think i have a buggy system, it is an old asus rig, pentium d)
so, i decided to try kororaa, cause the little blue penguin is cute and stuff
i will try lm again but im going with the lte instead...
it seems like it might have been the new nvidiaa driver... i tried the newest one from the website, instead of the recommended one from the 'applet' for additional drivers..... what happened was the little icon dissappeared from the toolbar on the top, next to the volume icon... i forgot where it was in the menu, cause the new gnome menu sucks, so i just got it from nvidia, but my video card is really old and doesn't like the newest drivers (at least in windows), every time, always have to stay one version behind...
anyways, i forget what happened, something like the gnometweaker tool disappeared, so i tried rebooting, and fubar... it wouldn't even reboot
anywayss, i gave up
later (i think i have a buggy system, it is an old asus rig, pentium d)
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ellgor
Re: Installing nvida driver in LIinux mint 12
Hi,
A few changes have happened that alter the way things are done, try this:
Assuming you are logged in and running as normal,
Open a terminal and type in
sudo lightdm stop or sudo stop lightdm (light now being the graphical manager)
a black screen will be presented, press Alt and F1 or any F upto 6 (maybe Ctrl+Alt+F1-6)
in the screen presented log-in as normal
to make things run smoothly do the following
sudo apt-get --purge remove nvidia-*
after running this say yes to the prompt
cd to the nvidia file and run it as follows
sudo sh ./home/nvidia-blah-blah (wherever the file is and its number)
follow the guide from nvidia, accept everything, if there are no error messages along the way the installation has worked, otherwise start again.
Hope this of use,
Ellgor.
A few changes have happened that alter the way things are done, try this:
Assuming you are logged in and running as normal,
Open a terminal and type in
sudo lightdm stop or sudo stop lightdm (light now being the graphical manager)
a black screen will be presented, press Alt and F1 or any F upto 6 (maybe Ctrl+Alt+F1-6)
in the screen presented log-in as normal
to make things run smoothly do the following
sudo apt-get --purge remove nvidia-*
after running this say yes to the prompt
cd to the nvidia file and run it as follows
sudo sh ./home/nvidia-blah-blah (wherever the file is and its number)
follow the guide from nvidia, accept everything, if there are no error messages along the way the installation has worked, otherwise start again.
Hope this of use,
Ellgor.