unfortunately, a new problem came up :(
t accepted the sudo/root thing. bt after t verified that, this came
up:
" ERROR: You appear to be running an X server; please exit X
before
installing. For further details, please see the section
INSTALLING
THE NVIDIA DRIVER in the README available on the Linux
driver
download page at www.nvidia.com."
what on earth s that talking about?? :) (im NOT aware of running any
servers on my pc :P :D)
On Mar 15, 10:48 am, Jan <[email protected]> wrote:
> thx a lot. ill try t as soon as i get on linux again :)
>
> On Mar 14, 3:34 pm, Christopher Stamper <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
> > On Sat, Mar 14, 2009 at 9:31 AM, Jan <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > > I was trying to install the nvidia drivers for my card and when I
> > > opened t with the following command: "sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86-180.29-
> > > pkg1.run", t tells me that it needs to be run as a root.
> > > Two questions:
> > > what does it mean?
>
> > The root user has special permissions... ;-)
>
> > Normall you shouldn't run anything as root, but sometimes certain commands
> > need 'superuser' permissions..
>
> > > how do I do it? :)
>
> > Append the command with 'sudo', so 'sudo sh NVI....'
>
> > --
> > Christopher Stamper
>
> > Email: [email protected]
> > Web:http://tinyurl.com/2ooncg
> > gTalk:http://tinyurl.com/6e359r
> > Skype: cdstamper
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