Hi Onkar<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 7:45 PM, Onkar Shinde <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:onkarshinde@gmail.com">onkarshinde@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"> <div><div class="h5"><br> > I downloaded the driver, and I have a chicken and egg situation it seems. I<br> > can not install the driver because X server is running, I can stop X server<br> > if I boot to a root shell from the grub menu, but that is runlevel 1 and the<br> > driver installer is complaining about that. What to do?<br> <br> </div></div>Did you try to use Ctrl + Alt + F1 from GDM screen to go to console?</blockquote><div>Yes, I did that. And from there I even tried to give a command 'gdm stop' (with and without sudo).</div><div></div> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">By the way, installing drivers from upstream is not recommended<br> because you never know what will break. You should try to solve your<br> problem in some other way.</blockquote><div></div><div>I was trying to install only because I can not do persistent settings any other way.</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"> What does the screen resolution say about available resolutions? Why<br> are you using nvidia specific tools to manage resolution?<br> Do you have all updates installed (specifically linux-restricted-modules)?</blockquote><div></div><div>available resolutions are 1366x768 and below. Trying to use nvidia specific tools because I could not do persistent settings any other way so trying this way.</div> <div></div><div>linux-restricted-modules are installed, not all updates. I am on a WLL CDMA internet connection, and that too far away from the tower so speeds are very low. Can't do all updates.</div><div> </div><div> Thanks,</div><div></div><div>Moz</div></div><br>