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
>
> On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 8:13 AM, Dazed_75 <lthielster@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> 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.
>>>
>>> --
>>> 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
>>
>>
>> --
>> Dazed_75 a.k.a. Larry
>>
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