Mark Hull-Richter wrote: >> >> Just hit www.nvidia.com and get their binary driver. >> >> > I thought of that, but their new driver refuses to install unless I halt > the X server, and I don't know how to do that yet. I tried a terminal > session, but it's no different. > > Thanks. > > While in a terminal window enter init 3, as root. This should stop X. Or you could boot with a 3 (runlevel) at the end of the kernel command line. Bob...