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I am trying to upgrade/install Nvidia drivers. Instructions say that I need to shutdown x server to do so. How in the world do I do that? I can't seem to find any help for that on the net anywhere.
You probably know more than i do but the way i got this done was to have X not start automatically, just do that install the drivers and start x from console.
If X is already running you can kill X by hitting "Ctrl + Alt + Backspace"
If you don't want X to start automatically when you boot you can edit "/etc/inittab" find where is says "id:5:initdefault:" and change it to "id:3:initdefault:"
You probably know more than i do but the way i got this done was to have X not start automatically, just do that install the drivers and start x from console.
That works also. What I like about my method is you don't have to reboot at any stage. Nor do you perform a nasty kill.
You have resurrected a 10+ year old thread. It would surely be better to start a fresh thread and clearly state your problem as opposed to "I have the same problem...", which probably is not exactly true over such a time span, especially with a 'Buntu and Nvidia drivers.
Try recovery mode on Mint 17. From the boot menu choose recovery mode or edit the boot entry and add the word recovery to the arguments on the linux command line. Change ro to rw in the boot commands or remount the read only filesystem from the root shell.
Last edited by DavidPhillips; 11-07-2014 at 02:17 PM.
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