Q: howto for updating NVIDIA driver

[D. R. Evans]

Michel Daggelinckx said the following at 12/30/2006 12:14 PM :

>> The instructions then say to run "sh
>> NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-1.0-9746-pkg2.run". But when I do that, the
>> installation program complains that I am running an X server.
>>
>> I tried logging out and running the program from a console session,
>> but it still made the same complaint.
>>
>> So how *exactly* do I go about updating the video driver?
>>
>>   
> 
> chmod +x NVIDIA*
> sudo init 3
> sudo ./NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-1.0-9746-pkg2.run
> sudo init 5
> 
> 

Nope. That gave precisely the same error.