problem with Xorg

[Nils Kassube]

Jimmy Wu wrote:
> 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

I think you should keep the normal runlevel 2 but stop gdm

/etc/init.d/gdm stop

then install the nvidia driver and afterwards restart gdm:

/etc/init.d/gdm start

If you are using Kubuntu, replace gdm with kdm.


Nils