INTELCRAZY

I have no idea how to install an Nvidia driver, I tried having Synaptic do it but it's having problems fetching "404: not found". How do I install this damn driver? I am so tired of screwing with it that it's not even funny... Obviously, one of MS's good innovations never leaked into Linux and no idiot has said "..let's make something close to .exe....". I have tried installing by "sh" in Konsole and then pasting the file location but it says I am running an X Server and I should exit... What do I do here? Can something that ties to Linux be in an understandable language?

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Motoxrdude

Relax, its just an OS that your not used to. Press control+alt+backspace. This will kill the xserver. Now, re-run that command.
IMO, pclinuxos is not very good. Try ubuntu, it has a built in "Restricted Driveres Manager" which will install proprietary software for you.

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INTELCRAZY

Oh, Ubuntu is worse, IMO....

That takes me to the login screen... WTF!? I gotta be logged in to accomplish something... Linux is retarded.


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Motoxrdude

Worked fine for me. When you go to login, change the session and look for something like "FailSafe Terminal" or just "Terminal". I havent used PCLinuxOS long enough to really know what the name is exactly, but it's along those lines.

And maybe linux isnt for you. Linux does take some basic computer knowledge and it's not meant for everyone.

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INTELCRAZY

What do I do in the external terminal? Why do I have to go out of the OS to install something so simple?

I have the basic computer knowledge, I just like simplicity, I don't like writing twenty lines of code to get some idiotic driver installed that could've been done in two clicks with Windows, it's not me...

Motoxrdude

It takes one line of code.
I dont understand why you are having such great difficulty. And how in the hell do you go "out of a OS"?. All you are doing is login out and login in again. Hell, just open the terminal and enter
then run the command.

Or use ubuntu, and two clicks later you'll have drivers installed.

Linux is not windows. Linux does not aim to be like windows. Linux is linux, and if you don't like linux or don't have the capacity to run linux, use windows and stop complaining!

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INTELCRAZY

Hmm...Well I can actually understand VB, Python, and just a bit of C, but I be damned if I can't understand Linux's ignorance..

Explain here, what do the commands do? I don't like to regurgitate shit and not know what is going on and what does what, that is the main problem with this forum...

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Motoxrdude

Sudo (gives admin privilages) killall (kills a process) xserver (the gui).

So every operating system runs in a shell (text mode or terminal). Then there is a GUI ontop of that which issue commands to the shell. So by using the terminal you are bypassing the GUI (xserver) and running commands directly to the shell.

The reason you can't install the drivers is that for some reason, nvidia decided you cant run a gui while installing the drivers. I have always hated having to install nvidia drivers because of this. ATI on the other hand is just a simple double click and it runs through the install without any problems.

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What do I do then?

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When I type in "killall xserver" it says "xserver: no process killed"

Motoxrdude

Did you try logging out and select the "Terminal" and trying it then?

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