NVidia Debian thread

[Ric Moore]

On Tue, 2007-01-30 at 06:54 -0500, David Bandel wrote:
> On 1/29/07, Net Llama! <netllama at linux-sxs.org> wrote:
> > On Mon, 29 Jan 2007, Bob Hemus wrote:
> > > I finally got around to screwing with my NVidia driver and have a
> > > problem.  Sure seems there was an easy way to switch from runninh x11 to
> > > a command line with our buggering up the etc/init.d/xfree86-common file
> > > in the start up.  I just can't find it in the Debian manual or by
> > > googling.  When I tried the /home/bob#
> > >       sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-9631-pkg1.run
> > > I get this error.  I had all of the x windows closed, but cannot
> > > remember how to temporarily shut down the x11 server.  Or reading the
> > > INSTALLING THE NVIDIA DRIVER in the README.
> > >
> > > sh NVIDIA-LinuxERROR: You appear to be running an X server; please exit
> > > X before installing.  For
> > >         further details, please see the section INSTALLING THE NVIDIA
> > > DRIVER in the
> > >         README available on the Linux driver download page at
> > > www.nvidia.com.
> > > Thanks for every body's help and pastience.
> > > Bob
> > > PS Gotta quit now.  Wife is getting mean.  Try again tomorrow.
> >
> > Debian thinks that they're too good to respect the runlevels that just
> > about every other distro has treated as a standard.  So you need to do
> > "/etc/init.d/gdm stop" to get X to shut down.  It lame & retarded.
> >
> 
> Slackware has runlevels?
> 
> Anyway, I find your comments to be rather immature.  Personally, I've
> always found putting X startup in inittab to be rather ridiculous.
> First time I saw it I was amazed at the stroke of stupidity.  But
> then, every one of the more than half dozen different flavors of UNIX
> (and I'm not talking Linux distros here, I'm talking UNIX OS' like
> Ultrix, SUN OS4, HP-UX, AIX, *BSD, and others) all have found
> different ways to handle startups in general, not just X.
> 
> So who's lame and retarded?  I would have voted for RedCrap.

Oh hell, Mister Bandel has gone and done it... dissed RedCrap, ah Hat.

Just because they moved the entire Installation Support team duties to
the Philippines about the time I was using Haiku's and Burma-Shave
knockoffs in my subject lines, doesn't make them Crap. It merely marks
them as Humorless SOB's. <chuckles>  As a support monkey, I would be any
Admin's worst nightmare. It's part of my personal 12 steps to admit that
publicly. <sighs>  Ric
 
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