 Need Help With Adding Nvidia Drivers In Debian, please help! |
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 Mar 2 2006, 11:49 PM
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NiGHTFoX - Hiding in the dark  Group: Members Posts: 680 Joined: 3-April 05 Member No.: 3,584  |
Ok, I decided to go with Debian because I've always wanted to try it.
I'm using the latest version and I just need to get the drivers installed. I've searched and searched, but I can't figure out how to login as root and execute commands in the terminal as root. I USED to know, like a really long time ago, but I can no longer find my old documents that I had printed out with the command. Perhaps one of our kind Linux users would like to assist a noob to Linux?  I'm glad to be in the whole Linux world now. Time to finally start migrating away from Windows, spyware and viruses! But first, I need the drivers installed! Thanks!! [N]F This post has been edited by miCRoSCoPiC^eaRthLinG: Mar 3 2006, 01:04 PM |
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Mar 3 2006, 07:52 PM
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Way Out Of Control - You need a life :) Group: Members Posts: 1,366 Joined: 14-September 04 From: Nottingham England Member No.: 570 |
Follow the instructions that yiu downloaded with the Nvidia driver. to jump start you... from a terminal whilst loged in as a normal user. CODE su - <password> or login as root in command line (dont login as root in graphical mode) im not sure about debian, but most linux distro's give you 7 login terminals, where the first 6 are command line, and the 7th is graphical X desktop. use ctrl+alt+FUNCTION_KEY to switch between login consoles... e.g. ctrl+alt+F7 to go to graphical login. ctrl+alt+F1 to login on the first command line terminal. |
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Mar 3 2006, 09:49 PM
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Colonel Panic  Group: [MODERATOR] Posts: 2,881 Joined: 25-March 05 From: Toronto, Ontario, Canada Member No.: 3,233 myCENTs:22.53 |
remember, you must have the kernel-sources installed, or else you can't compile the drivers for your Linux installation
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Mar 3 2006, 11:04 PM
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NiGHTFoX - Hiding in the dark Group: Members Posts: 680 Joined: 3-April 05 Member No.: 3,584 |
QUOTE(xboxrulz @ Mar 3 2006, 04:49 PM)  remember, you must have the kernel-sources installed, or else you can't compile the drivers for your Linux installation xboxrulz umm.... huh? When I logged in via terminal (I skipped the graphics) and I login as root and run the command (sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-8178-pkg1.run), I get the following error message: ERROR: You appear to be running an X server; please exit X before installing. For further details, please see the chapter "Intalling the NVIDIA Driver" in the README available on the Linux driver download page at www.nvidia.com. Well, I checked out some docs provided by NVIDIA and Debian. Supposdly, I can change the runtime with "init #" but no matter what, it appears X is running on each runtime level! How do I stop it? 800x600 is really starting to get to me Thanks! [N]F EDIT: nvr mind... see my new post about the kernel This post has been edited by nightfox: Mar 4 2006, 12:06 AM |
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