[mythtv-users] Ubuntu and Nvidia drivers - not quite to the point of tears

[Charles H. Chapman]

> >>
> >> How on earth do I temporarily disable X through reboots?
> >>

It's trivially simple!  Once you've booted up, at any command prompt
(like an xterm window) type:

/sbin/telinit 3

as root and that will take you to run level 3 (non-graphical).  From
there you can run the NVidia driver installation.

Chuck