On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 3:47 PM, <m.roth at 5-cent.us> wrote: > Ron Blizzard wrote: >> Okay, thanks. Good to know. I forget what "kludging" process I had to >> go through to get Mint to boot into text, I think I disabled the X >> server somehow. But even when I got to text mode, the Nouveau driver >> had loaded, which is why I eventually had to blacklist it before >> installing the proprietary nVidia driver. > > Or edit /etc/inittab to boot to runlevel 3, or just init 3 from the > command line (which you can reach via <ctrl><alt>-f1) or I think you can > append 3 to the kernel line.... That was the first thing I tried (coming from the CentOS world). I don't think there is any such thing as "runlevel 3" in Ubuntu/Mint. They use a different model. But the "text" entry did the job -- glad to know that (thanks). (I wonder why no one on the Ubuntu/Mint forums pointed me to that.) As for <cntr>-<alt>-f1, that gets me to the CLI, but, by that point, the Xorg has already been loaded. So it didn't help with installing the proprietary nVidia driver. As a matter of fact, even when I got it to log into non-graphics mode (doing whatever it was that I did), the Nouveau driver was still loaded -- which is why it had to be blacklisted in Grub. -- RonB -- Using CentOS 5.6