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#1

I am running OpenSUSE 13.1 with GNOME 3.10.2. I am trying to install the NVIDIA drivers. I have tried going into run level 3 with ctrl-alt-f3 and running sudo init3, but when I try to install from there, it says the x server is still running. The reference that I have says it should be as easy as typing

sudo /etc/init.d/gdm stop

but I do not have the gdm file in that location. I have tried finding an answer for some time now and I am getting very frustrated. Please help! I just need to exit the x server. Why is this so hard?

Also, I heard that you should be able to boot into run level 3 without ever opening the x server, but the instructions that I have found for doing this do not work. I am dual booted with Windows 8, and when I start my computer, there is no option for different run levels.

#2

No need to change VT, just open a terminal and do

su -c 'init 3'
#3

Also, I heard that you should be able to boot into run level 3 without ever opening the x server, but the instructions that I have found for doing this do not work. I am dual booted with Windows 8, and when I start my computer, there is no option for different run levels.

You’re just not familiar with the grub2 menu or systemd perhaps. Here’s a graphical guide on how to boot up into multi-user.target (formerly runlevel 3)

https://forums.opensuse.org/entry.php/112-How-to-Start-openSUSE-12-3-with-Grub-2-into-Run-Level-3

BTW, you can switch to multi-user.target on the fly with

systemctl isolate multi-user.target

and back to graphical.target (equivalent to runlevel 5)

systemctl isolate graphical.target
#4

To the op.
In addtion to the above post.
When you reach init 3, you might
not see the login prompt. This is happening on all of my 3 machines.
You have to use

Ctl-Alt-F2

to make the login prompt appear.

#5

before tweaking with the kernel is there a reason you’re not using the pre-build nvidia rpm’s?
anytime there is a kernel update you will have to manually recompile the nvidia drivers, the best way for a supported system to install nvidia drivers is with yast or zypper.

https://en.opensuse.org/SDB:NVIDIA_drivers

sorry for the post but a lot of people don’t know that there is an easy way to get the latest nvidia drivers
getting nvidia to run is not hard but extremely easy, enter just enter 2 commands


sudo zypper ar -f ftp://download.nvidia.com/opensuse/13.1/ nvidia
sudo zypper in x11-video-nvidiaG03

the above is a driver for grforce 8xxxx and newer (that’s before nvidia started using 3 digit version numbers)

#6

On my part, because I don’t have to wait.
Installing the nvidia driver downloaded from nvidia is not a problem
after a kernel update.