[Feisty] Normal ways to kill xserver don't work

[Matthew Flaschen]

Ari Torhamo wrote:
> I'm trying to install Nvidia proprietary driver in Feisty (nv doesn't work with my GeForce 8800 card), but I can't get the installer work because I can't stop xserver from running.
> 
> Things that I have tried, but which don't work:
> 
> killall gdm (gives "no processes killed" (transl. from Finnish))
> killall xorg (same as above)
> killall xserver (same as above)
> Ctrl + Alt + Backspace (just gives a black screen - a Feisty problem?)
> Ctrl + Alt + F1 (same as above)
> telinit 2 (forgot why this doesn't work)
> telinit 3 (brings the graphical login)
> 
> I tried the commands from the desktop and recovery mode. Killall and Ctrl + Alt + Backspace used to work in Feisty to my remembering - don't know what's wrong with them now. Something to do with the vesa driver perhaps?
> 
> I'd be greatfull for help in this because I can only have 60Hz refresh rate on my monitor at the moment (that's all I can get with the vesa driver).

Are you using grub?  If so, restart, go to the grub menu screen (you may
have to push ESC), press e (I think) to edit the command line, and add
the word single at the end (remove "quiet" and "splash" if they're
there).  That should boot without X.

Matt Flaschen