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The Ctrl-Alt-Bksp use to exit X windows but dosen't in Mandrake anymore. Try going to the control center and change the current display driver to a standard SVGA, you should be able to update your video then. You can also set the boot section (in control center) to not start the graphics on bootup too.
Since you seem to be in runlevel 5 (boot to X) you can do two things to temporarily enter console mode.
Either press <Ctrl><Alt><F2> , login as root and run 'service dm stop'. Do your thing and run 'service dm start'.
Or from a terminal in X (as root) run 'init 3' and you'll change runlevel to "console". Afterwards you can either
run 'startx' as your normal user or 'init 5' as root.
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