Rob Brown-Bayliss wrote: > 2) press ctrl-alt-F1, this will swap to a text screen, log in as root. > at the prompt type telinit 3 and press enter. this will shut down all X > sesions. install your drivers, then type telinit 5 which will restart X > and gdm. > > just to be safe, after changing your X config, type startx and make sure > it works before doing telinit 5. > A nice feature of X in FC is that it disables itself for 5 minutes if it fails to start a few times. If there's a problem with the drivers, you'll initially get a flashing login prompt that seems quite alarming - it's impossible to do anything. But after about 10 attempts an ncurses-style message appears and after that X is disabled. Jonathan
