How install NVIDIA drivers? Can't disable X

[Fred Roller]

Smoot Carl-Mitchell wrote:
> 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.
>   
Smoot's method is the one I used when I used to install nvidia drivers 
by hand.  Their instruction where straight forward except for this first 
tid bit.

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