Problems installing nvidia drivers

I got the latest nvidia drivers for a gforce 8600 gt card. What ever I try ends up in tears. After download I move into the directory with the nvidia .run file. I do like normal and run Code: sudo sh longfilename.run I do get an error saying an instance of x is allready running. Now if I try to kill x from terminal I reboot. So I checked /var/logs and found this: Quote: nvidia-installer log file '/var/log/nvidia-installer.log' creation time: Sat Dec 17 02:36:00 2011 installer version: 290.10 PATH: /usr/lib/kde4/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin nvidia-installer command line: ./nvidia-installer Using: nvidia-installer ncurses user interface -> The file '/tmp/.X0-lock' exists and appears to contain the process ID '7818' of a runnning X server. 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 Welcome to NVIDIA - World Leader in Visual Computing Technologies. 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 Welcome to NVIDIA - World Leader in Visual Computing Technologies. Well I did go to the readme and I searched several forums. I tried to install using first terminal ctrl+alt+F1 but also here I get the same error, allready running x. then I tried that again this time using Code: init 3 beforehand, but yet again same result. As time is ticking I tried this even though I do not know why init 3 would make any difference, but I saw a tips in a forum and just tried. I can't think of more to try yet I can not run the driver installer. what else can be done?

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