On Fri, 2011-06-10 at 07:42 +0200, Mark Panen wrote: > Been googling for this with no success. I have tried init 3 and teinit > 3 and the runlevel command shows i am at runlevel 3 but X is still on > and i cannot install a Nvidia driver. Enter who -r to see your current run level but there is no need for changing it. Try strg + alt + F9 then alt + F1, login and shutdown your X using the init script (/etc/init.d/gdm stop for gnome, kdm for kde or xdm) frank