New NVidia 5336 Drivers Available - 2.6 Kernel Support

Marc Schwartz MSchwartz at MedAnalytics.com
Wed Jan 28 17:58:51 UTC 2004


On Wed, 2004-01-28 at 11:44, Bobby Ryan Newberry wrote:
> Marc Schwartz wrote:
> 
> >Hi all,
> >
> >Just a quick heads up that NVidia has made available new drivers
> >(version 5336) available, which now include support for the 2.6 kernel.
> >  
> >
> Could anyone tell me how to shut down the X-Windows server in Fedora, 
> long enough to install the new drivers?
> 
> Thanks,
> Ryan Newberry


Open a console window, 'su' to root and type:

init 3

That will shutdown X and bring you to a text mode console.

When done, again as root, type:

init 5

at the console, and it will restart X.

HTH,

Marc







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