During installation of a (faulty) Nvidia Geforce 5700 FX in a RH 7.2 system the X86Free file got corrupted. Everytime I boot, it will go in X so fast and then I have a garbled screen.

Can I get out of this garbled screen without rebooting?

How can I get into text mode after booting in order to edit X86Free?

Thanks,

Dirk

I believe you can kill the X server with Ctrl-Alt-Bsp. Every distro I've used has used tty7 for the X display. You should have 5 additional consoles tty2-tty6 available at a minimum. Switch to another console with Ctrl-Alt-F2 (for tty2), login and repair your config file - if the Ctrl-Alt-Bsp doesn't work.

thanks,

Ctrl-Alt-Bckspc did not work, I found a workaround: by booting with the rescue disk, I could edit inittab so that it stays in init 3 level, and then work on XF86Config with vi.

I am getting there slowly, following the 50 page README file NVIDIA created.

I need some sleep now after spending 8 hours at the keyboard. My XF86log doesn't give any serious errors any more but the screen is still garbled as soon as I start X.

How do i disable wine? This seems to fail during bootup. This is the Windows emulator I don't need I guess.

Dirk