has anyone simply recommended the OP to boot into "recovery mode"??
Your grub menu will have had it. if you don't see Grub menu come up edit /boot/grub/menu.lst
find the timeout value to 10 or something, then you'll have a number of boot options, probably Ubuntu 9.04 `uname -r` and Ubuntu 9.04 `uname -r` (Recovery Mode)
Boot into the second one. It'll drop you to a root shell, you may have to /etc/init.d/networking start to get your interwebz and certain system services won't be running but it won't load X and you should be able to install the nvidia drivers.
Another question:
WHY AREN'T YOU USING APT FOR ISNTALLING THAT DRIVER??
>apt-cache search nvidia
it'll be nvidia-glx-XXX where XXX is a version number for the gfx card you want (legacy use 73, middle level 96 and cutting edge cards use... 176? the last one.)
>sudo aptitude install nvidia-glx-XXX
Regards.
On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 12:03 PM, AZ Rune
<arizona.rune@gmail.com> wrote:
Thanks Larry I have two off comming up and I will see what I can do to make that happen.
Brian
Possible solution below (only this comment top posted).
On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 8:02 AM, Dazed_75
<lthielster@gmail.com> wrote:
Perhaps I am way off base here but why are you expecting runlevel 3 to not run X? Yes, that was the SysVinit definition, but has not been used in debian or ubuntu in a long time:
http://www.debianadmin.com/debian-and-ubuntu-linux-run-levels.html
I think I read that Fedora, RedHat had started using upstart but I don't know whether they kept the runlevel definintions they used previously like in RH9:
http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/linux/RHL-9-Manual/ref-guide/s1-boot-init-shutdown-sysv.html
The confusion in usage of runlevels by different systems is made much clearer in this wikiperia article:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Runlevel
So again, I may be off base here, but it seems to me there is no way in ubuntu 9.04 to do what you want without editing some of the services out of some runlevel (2-5) before tryiing to enter it and expecting X not to run. IOW, runlevel 2-5 are all the same un debian/ubuntu UNLESS you change their definition first.
Hmmm, I just realized that for their server edition, they probably have done so already. I don't have ne installed to look at.
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Dazed_75 a.k.a. Larry
Take a look at the following but read down a ways to find the solution that did work for someone:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/78408/how-do-i-change-default-runlevel-in-ubuntu
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