 MaxoYour tax dollars at work.Premium,VIP
join:2002-11-04
Tallahassee, FL | reply to Snakeoil
Re: Halp. (Drivers) said by Snakeoil:How can I tell if I am using lightdm vs gdm? One of those prevents the GUI for launching. Instead I get the console. If gdm is not in /etc/init.d/ then you are not using gdm. If both show up then I'm not sure how to tell. You could always run `sudo stop gdm && sudo start lightdm` which should guaruntee you are in lightdm and not gdm. |
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 PjrDon't Panic
join:2005-12-11
UK | sudo service gdm status
gdm: unrecognized service
sudo service lightdm status
[ ok ] lightdm is running.
or if Ubuntu doesn't have /usr/sbin/service then use
sudo /etc/init.d/gdm status
-su: /etc/init.d/gdm: No such file or directory
sudo /etc/init.d/lightdm status
[ ok ] lightdm is running.
It's probably the best method but there are others such as grepping "ps aux". I assume Ubuntu hasn't deviated so far from Debian that the above won't work.
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 SnakeoilIgnore Button. The coward's feature.Premium
join:2000-08-05
Mentor, OH
kudos:1 | Thank you. I used the first block that you posted. I'm running gdm. So lightdm is the one that shuts off my gui. |
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SnakeoilIgnore Button. The coward's feature.Premium
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Mentor, OH
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Thanks. Turns out I'm running gdm.
I recall when I first upgraded to 12.04 LTS, I had the same situation.
Steam doesn't like the 304.48 nvidia driver. I need to figure out how to update it, and the gl packages. I would have thought it would have been done through the software/update manager.
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MaxoYour tax dollars at work.Premium,VIP
join:2002-11-04
Tallahassee, FL
1 edit | In 12.04 I was able to get the latest nvidia drivers through Jockey by installing the "NVIDIA accelerated graphics driver (**experimental**beta) (version experimental-310)" drivers.
Update: Added exact wording from Jocky. |
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UrakiUrakiPremium
join:2003-06-22
Belle Plaine, KS | reply to Snakeoil
Under 12.10, you can install "nvidia-experimental-310" & "nvidia-settings-experimental-310" to get a later version.
Not sure if that works under 12.04 |
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