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Perhaps this should be split into two different pages, one for amd, one for nvidia. The current structure is too book-like. - — Tony Senerchia 2012/08/22 08:52

I've added another way to shut down X. — Brian Lawrence 2012/08/22 11:57

Brian, I originally had included that (telinit 3) in the description of ways to shut down X (along with init 3, which I seem to remember working on some distro at some point), but removed it after issuing the command on my system and seeing no results. I do already have the nvidia driver installed, but I don't know why that would make a big difference. So I removed those commands. Can anyone confirm either way? Thanks! — Tony Senerchia 2012/09/02 11:58

It's always worked for me, including updating already installed drivers. — Brian Lawrence 2012/09/03 06:18

The use of NVIDIA-Linux-x86specificrevision.run may not be clear for unexperienced users. Is there a more elegant way of writing this, or should an example be given? — Tony Senerchia 2012/09/02 13:34

Maybe “version-number”? — Brian Lawrence 2012/09/03 06:18

Ooops! Changes for the better already made by alienbob. — Brian Lawrence 2012/09/03 06:28

Yes! It looks good, and addressed some of the messiness I was running into with the whole shutting the x server down section. I'll try to re-write it to put the graceful way first, relegating the crude way to a note. Or should I do away with it entirely? — Tony Senerchia 2012/09/04 10:27

In “Installation via nVIDIA Binary” section, in the first Tip, super-user and root are both used. Should these be used interchangeably, or should I opt for just one? In that case, which one? — Tony Senerchia 2012/09/04 10:27