I set up a new system that includes the following:
ASUS AE8N-E Motherboard (NVIDIA nForce 4 Ultra Chipset)
AMD Athlon 64 3800+ Processor
OCZ PC3200 Gold Edition 1GB Memory
EVGA GeForce 6600 PCI-Express x16 Video Card
CentOS 3.7
The video card wasn't detected and I had to use the VESA driver
(generic) when I installed CentOS 3.7. As this is the first time I've
used a NVIDIA video card with Linux my knowledge is nil on this subject.
After a quick review of the available video drivers that come with
CentOS 3.7 I did a Google search and came up with this link:
http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux_display_ia32_1.0-8762.html
Linux Display Driver - IA32
Version: 1.0-8762
Operating System: Linux IA32
Release Date: May 22, 2006
I downloaded this driver and attempted to install it. When I run this
# sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-8762-pkg1.run
to install the driver I'm told that I'm running an X server and that I
need to exit X before installing the NVIDIA driver. After some
experimenting I'm left with two questions:
1. How do I exit the X server to install this video driver?
2. How do I restart the X server when the driver is installed?
Any other comments about this subject would be welcome.
Thanks,
Corwin Burgess
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