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Changing to runlevel 3 + 8800 gtx driver

Asked by jnaymie

I was wondering how i could change the run default level to 3 so i can install my 8800 GTX drivers properly. I know that there is another post about this but i absolutely have no clue how to edit the rc-default. First of all, I don't know what i should even be editing in the rc-default script and second of all when i did try to edit it, it says i don't have permission to save it. I know its probably something really stupid but I have only had Linux for about 5 days and its going a little slow. Also if anyone wants to give an in depth description on how to install the Nvidia 8800 GTX drivers (with out using Envy which didn't work for me) I would be very appreciative.

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Shashank Chintalagiri (shashank-chintalagiri) said : 		#1

You can get the nvidia beta drivers here ::

http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux_display_ia32_100.14.06.html

Note that these are beta drivers that arent supported by ubuntu and dont come in deb packages. You will need the build-essential package and the linux kernel headers (which would be the linux-headers-generic or linux-headers-386 packages which you can install using apt-get or aptitude. type in uname -r to find out what kernel you have.)

In order to switch to a different runlevel, you can open up a terminal and type sudo telinit <runlevel>. I was able to install it by doing a sudo telinit 1 (runlevel 1 - single user mode) and install the drivers there using "sh Nvidia..<long file name>...run" . This may not always work though, and you may have to edit the rc-default script if you have to install it from runlevel 3. Once it is installed, you can do a telinit 3 to come back to your normal runlevel (hopefully with the nvidia driver running)

Make sure to make a backup of your xorg.conf before any of this, and simply restore the old file if you run into some bad weather.

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