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Im not sure if I quite understand exactly what you are saying but on the info I have it sounds like your init runlevel is set to 3, You can change this in the file /etc/inittab, open it with an editor and change this line...
id:3:initdefault:
change it to
id:5:initdefault:
that will make your box boot into X by default, you might try making sure the driver installed correctly first though, on the command line type
startx
you should see an NVIDIA logo before the desktop loads if the driver is working.
there are a few text editiors that you can use from a prompt...emacs, vi, vim, elvis, and others....they are a bit tricky to learn. The easiest one is pico hopefully its on your system.
just invoke the editor command and the file name when you are in the directory with the file. i.e. --
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