Okay, here's the deal. I just got a 3D vid card and downloaded and installed the Linux drivers for it. When I next booted into Linux XWin started and shut down repeatedly for about two or three minutes. How do I undo the effects of the driver install, or can I? At least can I bypass starting X on boot up? Thanks. [addsig]

Well first, what kind of card/driver, NVIDIA or ATI? And second, what distro?

Whoops. It's nVidia and I've got RedHat 7.3. I think I know how to get X configured again I just need to know how to keep it from starting up. [addsig]

To keep X from starting when you boot, type Linux 3 (or linux 3, or whatever, just append a 3). That will cause it to boot in runlevel 3, and in most distros, booting into runlevel 3 doesn't start X automatically. Runlevel 5 starts X automatically.

Where do you put that in? Is it a command to pass through the boot loader (I'm using GRUB)? [addsig]

Yes, just add a number (in this case, 3) to the kernel line.

Erm, on second thought, don't guess I was very clear, huh? When you see the GRUB menu, hilight the Red Hat entry, and press 'e', then, add the number 3 to then end of the kernel line, and boot it. Then, that should (theoretically) start you in runlevel 3.

Okay, thanks. I reinstalled Linux a couple days ago, but that will help should it ever happen again. [addsig]

also, you could simply switch to a tty (for example by pressing ++) and do stuff by hand. Probably the new driver isn't correctly mentioned in the /etc/X11/XF86Config
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I tried switching to a new tty, but the window of oppurtunity for hitting keys was about .001 seconds. [addsig]

doesn't it stop after trying like 5 times? If it doesn't, get another distro, honestly.
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