I have found the steps posted on this website: http://linux.xvx.cz/2011/01/nvidia-proprietary-drivers-and-rhel6/ to be quite useful.
Best,
Andrew
On Dec 7, 2012, at 12:14 PM, Andreas Goetz wrote:
> This has never failed me (on RHEL and openSuSE):
>
> 1) Switch to a console (CTRL+ALT+F2)
> 2) Log in as root
> 3) switch to runlevel 3 (this will kill any X-server)
> $> init 3
> 4) install the device driver
> 5) switch back to runlevel 5 (automatically restarts X-server)
> $> init 5
>
> Ubuntu might do things differently.
>
> All the best,
> Andy
>
> On Dec 7, 2012, at 4:26 AM, Jason Swails wrote:
>
>> I included a section on my Wiki page specifically for this:
>> http://jswails.wikidot.com/installing-amber12-and-ambertools-12#toc19
>>
>> The directions may not directly apply (look at the note about KDE and kdm
>> as opposed to GNOME and gdm). In which case, googling "kill x server
>> <distro>" where <distro> is your linux variant is probably your best bet.
>>
>> Good luck,
>> Jason
>>
>> On Fri, Dec 7, 2012 at 1:30 AM, Sanjib Paul <sanjib88paul.gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Dear Amber Developers,
>>> I am trying to install AMBER12 in GPU.
>>> To install CUDA version I have to install cuda toolkit and nvidia driver.
>>> So, I have downloaded cudatoolkit_4.2.9_linux_64_rhel6.0.run and
>>> devdriver_4.2_linux_64_295.41.run. Then I installed cuda toolkit. But,
>>> whenever I tried to install driver I failed. The error message I am getting
>>> is like - "you appear to be running X server. please exit X before
>>> installing....." I think it is a common problem. I saw some solutions of
>>> this problem in webpage. But, no process become helpful. To exit from X I
>>> pressed ctrl+alt+backspace. It did not wrok. Then in another place saw a
>>> instruction to press ctrl+alt+f4. When I did this I got a black screen.
>>> Then I logged in there and tried to run the
>>> devdriver_4.2_linux_64_295.41.run. But getting the same error message. So,
>>> how can I overcome this problem? Please help.
>>>
>>> Sanjib Paul
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>>
>>
>>
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