Redhat 9 Display Problems

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i recently installed redhat 9, everything worked well, so then i decided to update my display drivers so could play unreal tournament 2003. I installed the correct drievrs (chosen my NVchooser - nvidias driver chooser binary) except when installing they encountered an error - after they had updated the kernel and replaced my old display drivers, so, i restart to see if the drievrs were updated (i didnt know it encountered an error), this is what happens, i boot up, everything is ok, starts up fine, until it trys to start x, now, instead of returning me to the command prompt with a "cannot start Xserver" error, it gives me a blank screen, that doesnt accept keyboard or mouse input, which means i cant alt-ctrl-F1 to get a command prompt (or any other of the F keys) what i need is to get back to the command prompt (i have some very important files on my computer which will be lost if i reformat and reinstall)

is there any way to stop x from starting on boot up???

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edit the inittab, to find this file just open up a terminal and do a locate inittab

Then, to correctly edit the inittab file, just open it up in any editor (you have to be root to be able to write to it).

Look for the line that reads id:5:initdefault:, and change it to read id:3:initdefault: instead (i.e. change the 5 to a 3).

Then, save and exit, and reboot. You'll be greeted by a text-mode login screen.

Hope that helps. This worked for me, and I was able to successfully update my nvidia driver.

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