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[ne0-reloaded]

ive just installed linux for the first time and im having problems installing video drivers. i have a old geforce2 mx card in my pc. I dled the drivers from nvidia, tried to run it from the konsole and it wouldnt work. plus once i got to the konsole (using ctrl+alt+f1) i couldnt get out. I tried init 5, init 3, telinit 5 and telinit 3; neither helped. i had to restart to get back to the gui. if anyone can help plz do so.

oh im running mandrake 9.2

thanks!

[ZeroX]

It would help if you told us what you did to try and run the nvidia installer (which is normally works). As far as consoles go, if you were already in a gui, you could have just run a graphical version of a conosole ala xterm, aterm, etc.

Most linux distros will provide you with several virtual terminals. You found the first one via Ctrl-Alt-F1 ... the next one is Ctrl-Alt-F2 ... F3 ... F4 ... through F6. Typically the gui terminal is located above even those. Just try F7, F8, etc. That'll usually get you back to the gui.

[ameoba]

"konsole" is a KDE terminal application. When you have a text-mode login, that's a 'console'.


Anyways, you're going to want to stop X (and the associated KDM/GDM/XDM process that restarts it) before you install the drivers; one way of doing this is to use init to drop down to a non-GUI login modej, an easier way to do it is to run the XDM script and tell it "stop" (unfortunately, I'm not sure where this is on Mandrake; on debian it's /etc/init.d/xdm it's probably in /etc/init.d or /etc/rc.d for you; might have a different name, tho). After X is stopped, run the nvidia installer.

Things will work now.

[ravendark]

you say your running mandrake, here (http://www.mandrakeusers.org/index.php?showtopic=4567) is a thread on mandrakusers.org that explains it step by step