On Wed, 2015-10-07 at 09:16 -0600, David wrote: > the full name of the driver is NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-352.41.run > i did try the nvidia support and they were not very helpful, they said > i had to contact the actual card manufacturer (evga), who said i had > to contact nvidia.... i looked through some of the nvidia forums and > they didn't have anything that was helpful. > it is mate display manager, although it is running in cinnamon. i > double checked because there were several others depending on distro > (lightdm, kdm) but mine does in fact have mdm by default.
OK > ill look at virtual terminals for mate, would that have x stopped > though? I don't think it would have stopped X but uses another virtual terminal. > all of my f keys (2-7) result in a blank screen, f8 will switch back > and forth from the blank screen (the others will not switch back). i > don't recall off the top of my head if there was anything with the > keys above f8 but nothing that seemed any different or i'm sure i > would remember. OK > graphics is one of the things that doesn't make sense to me > sometimes, so when it comes to things like framebuffer i'm lost. if i > know where to look to find out what it needs to be, and where it needs > to be changed to make that happen i can usually handle that. anything > more and i'm at a loss though. It is complicated. although as I mentioned before... http://us.download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86/256.35/README/index.html this might be a place to look. > i also read that shift, esc, or del can gain access to boot options > while on the bios screen but the only thing i was able to get (once, > and not since then) was a grub> command line that i don't know how to > get around in. > OK, Try what Thomas has said because he is far more knowledgeable than I: ---------------------------- Do not mess around with files in /boot! What you want to do is on the grub screen (where you can pick the OS to start) a) stop the timer ;-) b) select the Linux Mint entry c) "[e]dit" it (this depends a bit on the grub setup, but usually there's either a selectable "button" or you just press "e" d) append " 1" (nothing else) e) (b)oot that command. This should really get you into runlevel 1, ie. a root (text)shell Runlevel 1 is a boot directly into a rootshell (no GUI, no network - but you can start either by hand), 3 is the CLI login (which will likely not work because this very interesting distro doesn't seem to install a/getty) and 5 is the GUI login. I'd also say that you should rather seek advise in a Mint forum, since the problem seems to be specific to that distro. Thomas ------------------------------ Also sorry to clog up the list. E > On Wed, Oct 7, 2015 at 8:05 AM, Eric Gunther <egunt...@warwick.net> > wrote: > On Wed, 2015-10-07 at 07:08 -0600, David wrote: > > I downloaded nvidia 352.41 and am keeping my fingers crossed > it'll > > work last time I had to try several of the drivers before I > found one > > that did the trick. I've tried ctrl-alt-f3 but it just > gives a blank > > screen and alt-f3 doesn't seem to do anything, I tried > > ctrl-alt-backspace and it just returned me to the login. > You're > > totally right about editing grub, it killed it and I ended > up fighting > > with it to reinstall mint last night. I'm not sure if > there's some > > other setting that's not working with the ctrl-alt- > commands. I've > > read something's that say I may need to edit default screen > resolution > > for it to be w able to display that but none of them said > anything > > about what resolution or how to find a resolution that works > > Thanks > > David > > > > OK, just off the top of my head, did you wait a bit after CTRL > ALT F3, > and try other ones too, in fact try them all and see what you > come up > with. I see that you (with the command mdm) and searching are > running > MATE? on mint? Is cinnamon a variation of the mate desktop, > where mdm > might stand for Mate Desktop Manager. I know little about > either of > these although, you may want to search for "virtual terminals > on mate" > or "single user mode on mint" to get closer to what you are > looking for. > > I see that mint is based on debian and Ubuntu. You might want > to try > help from either of those places as they have a reputation for > support. > I can only guess that the resolution is about framebuffer > cases... where > one can have graphics on the terminal, *I think*. This may be > necessary > to use the CTRL ALT F3 command as I am confident that OpenSUSE > has such > a setup. > > Also, nvidia has support as well. What is the actual name of > the driver > that you downloaded though? For instance, > > NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-352.41.run > > > E > > > > On Oct 7, 2015 6:42 AM, "Eric Gunther" > <egunt...@warwick.net> wrote: > > 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
