Linux Madnriva - Installing GFX drivers

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mikekelly

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Hi,

I am trying to install my GFX card drivers on a Linux platform, i get the following error message

ERROR - nvidia - installer must be run as root

Any ideas what I need to install these drivers, if it means root account or Admin then I am all ready running in this account.

I am a Linux noob I gave up using it last time I tried due to it being stressful and also a problem with booting up on the same HDD as my windows install. This time however I am determined to learn but obviously need a little help from your peeps.

Cheers
Mike
 
In SuSe 9.3 I had to open up a shell and login as root everytime I did something that "important". Open up a shell command console, login as root. Then type sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-8756-pkg1.run and press enter. Then you configure the X config file. Basically just read through this site.
 
Thanks for the info, a couple more questions:- how do i log in as root? :confused: and how do I stop Linux loggin into Window maker from boot, I think I selected this in error when I installed Linux. When I select exit it then loads KDE.

Thanks again

Mike
 
I got the root user thing sorted with "su root" but now it says I appear to be running an X sever and need to close it before continuing, can anyone tell me what an X server is?
 
From what I've read it's an important part of the graphical interface. SuSe is much easier to update. The update tool installs automatically the latest nVidia drivers if you want it to do it. You should see if Mandriva has an update tool which could do the same.
 
Yeah, I had a look into myself, even a mess around with it but couldnt get it to work, I installed the Generic 6800 drivers when I first installed linux but I dont think my display is as good it should be. I dont really need linux for any thing other than learning shell scripting so I will be okay as I stand.

Mike

P.s. thanks for your replies
 
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