problem with Xorg

[Njoku, George O.]

Installing the nvidia driver involve adding some kernel headers....you
need to switch to a non-GUI runlevel...

 

#init 2  ( for fedora)

#init 1  (I think 4 ubuntu) run `sysv-rc-conf -list | grep xserver`

 

Then install

 

 

From: ubuntu-users-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com
[mailto:ubuntu-users-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com] On Behalf Of Jimmy Wu
Sent: Friday, July 06, 2007 10:56 AM
To: Ubuntu user technical support,not for general discussions
Subject: Re: problem with Xorg

 

when I run the install from runlevel 1, it gives me a warning (it says
something about possible problems with certain daemons being disabled)
and advises me to switch to runlevel 3.  When I do that, the GUI starts
back up again. 

Is there anyway to just tell the X-server to exit while remaining in
runlevel 3

Thanks,

Jimmy

On 7/6/07, Njoku, George O. < njokug at winthrop.edu
<mailto:njokug at winthrop.edu> > wrote:

Switch to a non-graphical run-level

 

#init 1

 

Then run command

 

 

From: ubuntu-users-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com
[mailto:ubuntu-users-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com] On Behalf Of Jimmy Wu
Sent: Friday, July 06, 2007 10:44 AM


To: Ubuntu user technical support,not for general discussions
Subject: Re: problem with Xorg

 

When I start the install with the sh command, it starts normally, but
then tells me that I have an X server running and I need to exit X
before installing.
So how do I do that?

Thanks,

Jimmy

On 7/5/07, Njoku, George <njokug at winthrop.edu> wrote:

Have you installed/reinstalled nvidia drivers......note that nvidia got
their own linux drivers in website
http://www.nvidia.com/object/unix.html 

You might want to give it a try.

 

Note: you'll have to switch to runlevel 2  

#init 2

Then run ...

 

#sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86-100.14.11-pkg1.run

 

 

George

 

 

 

From: ubuntu-users-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com
[mailto:ubuntu-users-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com] On Behalf Of Jimmy Wu
Sent: Thursday, July 05, 2007 3:14 PM
To: Ubuntu user technical support,not for general discussions
Subject: Re: problem with Xorg

 

Thanks to all who responded with suggestions.

I really appreciate your help.

 

@Frank: I did the dpkg-reconfigure, and then I restarted gdm (sudo
/etc/init.d/gdm restart) and now I have my desktop again. Thank you :-)
 

There still seems to be a problem though: 

glxinfo gives me some error messages, and glxgears isn't working either.

 

When I find away to copy the output of glxinfo over to this computer,
I'll post it. 

glxgears gives me something like

Error: Couldn't get RGB, Double Buffered Visual

 

Jimmy 

 


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