On Sb, 11 iun 11, 10:56:28, Sven Joachim wrote:
> On 2011-06-11 10:30 +0200, Andrei POPESCU wrote:
> 
> > On Vi, 10 iun 11, 15:09:49, Rohit Vaidya wrote:
> >> For NVidia driver installation the Xorg should not be kept running. 
> >
> > Why not? Using the Debian packages I never had any issues with that.
> 
> The NVidia installer tries to load the kernel module when it's finished,
> and any previous version has to be unloaded first which is not possible
> when X is running.  There are some commandline options to override that
> behavior, but by default the installer will abort if X is running.

You meant the official nvidia installer? I specifically mentioned "using 
the Debian packages" ;)

Regards,
Andrei
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