On Sat, 9 Oct 2004 13:31:22 -0700 (PDT), Myron Slover <slovers4@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I made changes in my xorg.conf file and unable to > start X. I commented out load dri and changed driver > from nv to nvidea. I did this because of suggestion in > response to someone else trying to get nvidea drivers > to work. My glx did't work well at all. I rebooted > with rescue disc and tried to edit file back to what > it was. but file /etc/x11 is not visible. I booted > with knoppix and can see /etc/x11/xorg.conf but unable > to edit due to permissions. at the grub boot screen choose to edit the kernel line and tag a 3 on the end. will boot you into runlevel 3 (text mode) as root using nano or similar edit the conf and then when happy try startx.
