On Mittwoch, 7. Oktober 2015 20:35:23 CEST, Eric Gunther wrote:
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:
Oh, flowers. How kind and nice =)
If the only point of this exercise is btw. to install the nvidia driver:
I kinda doubt it's really required to enter runlevel 3 or below for this.
Granted, the installer will fail to load the new kernel module while X is up, but unless
it dares to restore the installation in turn, a reboot will "fix" that anyway.
inb4 you're currently using nouveau and end up with an unusable system, ensure
to blacklist the nouveau kernel module:
echo "blacklist nouveau" | sudo tee /etc/modprobe.d/bl_nouvea.conf
or similar.
Cheers,
Thomas
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