• sudo /etc/init.d/gdm stop = command not found
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I am trying to stop x server so I can up date my nvidia drivers. every time I use Ctrl-alt-F1 and type sudo /etc/init.d/gdm stop it returns sudo /etc/init.d/gdm: command not found. Any ideas? Or do any of you know any other ways to stop x-server or install nvidia drivers?
What distro do you have? It's saying you don't have /etc/init.d/gdm, so it probably has another name. On Gentoo it's /etc/init.d/xdm, so yeah it can be whatever.
[QUOTE=sunny946;28437657]I am trying to stop x server so I can up date my nvidia drivers. every time I use Ctrl-alt-F1 and type sudo /etc/init.d/gdm stop it returns sudo /etc/init.d/gdm: command not found. Any ideas? Or do any of you know any other ways to stop x-server or install nvidia drivers?[/QUOTE] What Distro, and version number/name??
Ubuntu 10.10
Try: [I]Sudo gdm-stop[/I] And when done [I]Sudo gdm-start[/I] If that fails to work, reboot and hold down shift during startup and install the driver via recovery mode. Though I have no personal experience with Ubuntu's recovery mode.
If you want to install drivers, you can try going into init state number 3. Try doing: [i]sudo init 3[/i] [i]nvidia drivers install stuff etc.[/i] [i]reboot[/i] Or you can boot directly to init state 3 by adding "3" in the end of your GRUB kernel options. Good luck.
Starting in recovery mode worked
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