Hi, I'm hoping I can get some help from the SteemIt community on this one.
I'm not very skilled in Linux, but am trying to learn.
I'm building a mining rig using 4 EVGA GeForce 1070 GPUs and I am having a very hard time getting the GPU drivers installed.
"When I try to install them, I get an error that says "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.ERROR: Installation has failed. Please see the file '/var/log/nvidia-installer.log' >for details. You may find suggestions on fixing installation problems in the README >available on the Linux driver download page at www.nvidia.com."
Does anyone have a fix for this? I did what it said on this page <a href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/149206/how-to-install-nvidia-run" and basically bricked my computer. I had to reinstall the OS from USB.
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.The error is pretty clear: you shouldn't install the drivers from inside X ("GUI").
So kill X:
ALT+F1sudo telinit 1Now start the installation again. Read nVidia's Linux documentation, especially
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What miner are you using and what is in the log?
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I managed to fix the problem. Downloaded more up-to-date drivers, then switched from EthMiner to Claymore and that fixed it.
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