Try issuing a ps -ef | grep X if it finds anything then you have X running somewhere, kill it with kill -9 'pid of x' (change pid of X to what it is)
rerun nvidia installer for your other problem with X not starting after new kernel, you have to rerun nvidia and recompile it for your new kernel /Michael On Tue, 2005-06-28 at 07:28 +0200, Tobias Powalowski wrote: > Am Montag 27 Juni 2005 21:35 schrieb Douglas Soares de Andrade: > > Hi sn0n ! > > > > Strange thing.... For me it is working perfectly. > > > > I just did a pacman -S nvidia and it updated my driver and it is ok. > > > > Em Segunda 27 Junho 2005 21:17, sn0n escreveu: > > > Is it just me, or do they not work with each other? > > > i tried getting the nvidia installed but lately all it tells me is > > > that there is a xserver running, even after a reboot and before ever > > > running startx nvidia says that installation failed because of an > > > xserver running, > > > and i cant update to the latest kernel, because then x wont start.. any > > > ideas? > > > > > > ;-) > Hi > here is what it exatcly says: > You have to shutdown Xserver to finish installation! > You have to rerun 'pacman -S nvidia'" > Other installation errors can be found at: /var/log/nvidia-installer.log > > take a look a look at nvidia-installer.log > thanks > greetings > tpowa > _______________________________________________ > arch mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/arch _______________________________________________ arch mailing list [email protected] http://www.archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/arch
