How install NVIDIA drivers? Can't disable X

[Smoot Carl-Mitchell]

On Sat, 2009-10-17 at 10:53 -0400, Glenn Booker wrote:
> Hi,
> I'm trying to install drivers for a GeForce210 video card on Ubuntu
> Desktop. I followed their instructions, but I'm getting the error that
> X needs to be shut off before the drivers can be installed.  Makes
> sense, but Desktop automatically puts you in the X/GNOME environment.
> How can I get around this? I tried booting into text only mode, but
> then it's at runlevel 1 and the installer doesn't like that either. I
> killed the offending X process, but that just logged me out.  Ideas?
> TIA!

CTL-Alt-F1 will get you a terminal login.  Login there and then type:

sudo /etc/init.d/gdm stop

That will shutdown the X server.  You can then proceed with the Nvidia
install.  You will want to uninstall the OpenSource driver before you
install the Nvidia driver to avoid driver conflicts.
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