On Tue, 2015-10-06 at 18:06 -0600, David wrote: > OK, so I guess this is a different way of askinga question I've been > wrestling with for a few days now. I need to install a driver > downloaded from nvidia, which when run tells me to stop xserver and > try running again. I've tried several commands but haven't had any > success this time. I installed the driver once before with the sudo > service mdm stop command but this time it also results in a blank > screen.
I have had success with sudo init 3, after logging out --> ALT F3 (or any F key below 5) to get to a command line in OpenSUSE. As far as I know, init 5 is X while init 6 is reboot. Init 1,2,3 *I think* are appropriate for installing nvidia driver. That is the ".run" driver file. Where one would issue the command "sudo sh nvidia_driver_name.run" to run it. The ALT F3 is to change virtual terminals on the computer, where the gui inhabits 6 or 7 on this OpenSUSE machine and a text line login is on a few of the others, while logging information is on others yet. There are 12 Function keys. I think this can be configured and so may be specific to a distribution. > So my thought now is to find a way to boot directly into a command > line without xserver starting in the first place, I've read that there > are options to edit /boot/grub/grub.Cfg and edit a line so that it > goes something like boot..... quiet splash text. Personally, I would not edit grub cfg to do this. I have a a lot of missteps when I work on the computer and that would cause undo complication. I think that often there is a ESC command or F10 or something while booting. I think you may find this on the nvidia site (they have an extensive manual/reference section for the CUDA toolset at least and I think that they often do have good reference) this may be a start: http://us.download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86/256.35/README/index.html > The result of this was finally that I had to use my install disk to > be able to get back into terminal so I could revert the file back to > it's original setting. I've read that there are ways to set it to run > at default 'run levels' 0-6 with some of them running without x > loading, but I don't feel like I understand at all where to change > that or which run levels do what. So I'd really appreciate it if > anyone knows how and where to edit run levels to boot without x > starting I'd really appreciate it, or any other ways to stop x and be > able to install the driver. I still have no internet so anything that > requires Internet access is out for me. > Thanks for any advice > David > I think* that one can exit X with the key combination CTRL ALT BACKSPACE, although I think this may be disabled in some distributions ... or X just restarts at that point. Which Nvidia driver did you download? Specifically which file extension? Have a good day, E > _______________________________________________ > xorg@lists.x.org: X.Org support > Archives: http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg > Info: http://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg > Your subscription address: %(user_address)s _______________________________________________ xorg@lists.x.org: X.Org support Archives: http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg Info: http://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg Your subscription address: %(user_address)s
