Problems Building an ETH Miner on Ubuntu

[lasmart613]

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.

HELP PLEASE!!!!

Comments

[slash-es]

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+F1
• log in
• sudo telinit 1

Now start the installation again. Read nVidia's Linux documentation, especially Before you Begin, for more info.

[pyrocryptex]

What miner are you using and what is in the log?

[lasmart613]

I managed to fix the problem. Downloaded more up-to-date drivers, then switched from EthMiner to Claymore and that fixed it.