On Tuesday 28 Sep 2004 00:37, Richard E Miles wrote: > > I have an nVidia FX5200 video card and I have downloaded its drivers > > from nVidia. When I try to run the installer it says I need to stop > > the X Server. How do I stop the X Server? > > > > John > > restart in level 3 as root > init 3 > login as root > then run the script > after completion of nvidia sript > startx Yes.. BUT before you startx (init 5) remember you have to edit your xorg.conf. Comment out dri: # Load "dri" and change the driver to : Driver "nvidia" This should be enough to get you up and running, and restarting X you should see the NVidia logo. HTH Colin -- Fedora Core 2, Custom Built Kernel 2.6.8.1 KDE-Redhat-3.3.0-2.2.2.kde Registered Linux user number 342953
