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Re: [LUG] Exiting X



On Sun, Aug 17, 2003 at 02:40:15PM +0100, Mike Tidball wrote:
> I'm trying to install the Nvidia drivers but I keep getting the message 
> X is running,I'm new to this, I need some way of getting up a consol as 
> root without X running.I'm using Suse 8.2 personal.

It shouldn't matter if X is running or not while installing glx, the
binary driver and modifying XF86Config-4.

A typical way of restarting X is:
ctrl+alt+backspace

-Kai

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