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in order to install the nvidia video drivers I want to restart X ... I normally do it in a twisted way by configuring that next time X doesn't start on reboot and then back ... but I assume there is a more straight forward way?
And if [ctrl-alt-bksp] doesn't work for some reason (e.g. DontZap option in xorg.conf), you can open /etc/inittab in a texteditor and the comments will probably indicate which runlevel to select for "multi-user mode" without X. To switch to this runlevel, execute "init <runlevelnumber>" as root in a terminal (you may need to use the full path: "/sbin/init").
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