xorg.conf messed up.

[Pybe]

On Sat, 9 Oct 2004 13:31:22 -0700 (PDT), Myron Slover
<slovers4 at yahoo.com> 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.