On Friday 30 April 2004 13:50, Markus Lindström wrote: > Hi there, > > I think this thread is pretty self-explanatory. Actually, I want to > install the binary nVidia drivers, and they require me to shut down > the X server. Unfortunately, when using the ctrl-alt-backspace > interrupt, X instantly respawns. I haven't tried this, but I'd expect # /etc/init.d/xfree86-common stop to do what you want.