Re: how to get to runlevel 3 (to install nvidia drivers)
On Sat, 2011-06-11 at 10:56 +0200, Sven Joachim wrote:
> On 2011-06-11 10:30 +0200, Andrei POPESCU wrote:
>
> > On Vi, 10 iun 11, 15:09:49, Rohit Vaidya wrote:
> >> For NVidia driver installation the Xorg should not be kept running.
> >
> > Why not? Using the Debian packages I never had any issues with that.
>
> The NVidia installer tries to load the kernel module when it's finished,
> and any previous version has to be unloaded first which is not possible
> when X is running. There are some commandline options to override that
> behavior, but by default the installer will abort if X is running.
>
> Sven
*?* on Ubuntu it was possible to remove an old version and to add a new
while running a DE. I suspect this is possible on Debian too?
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