Help Loggin out of KDE to CLI

I'm hoping someone here could point me in the right direction. I just recently installed a new motherboard in my system and reinstalled my operating systems (Windows XP and Mandrake Linux 9.1) due to a electrical problem here at my house. One thing I'm a little hazy on is logging out of KDE in Mandrake straight to a CLI interface so I can install my nVidia video drivers. When I attempt to install the drivers from within KDE it says I cannot be in X while installing the drivers. I also tried to open a terminal and SU root but no dice. My question is this:

How do I log out of KDE to a CLI so I can install my video drivers without having to reboot my system?

Any help the fine folks at Antionline can give me would be great. Thanks.

ctrl alt backspace should do it

To close your x server and return to a command line interface, you can either click on the KDE icon and then click logout, or do control+alt+backspace.

That'll do the trick.


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The ctrl+alt+backspace didn't work. It just returns me to my graphical login screen. Wacky.

hmm , strange i would try changing you .xinitrc file in your home directory ( put # infront of startkde or exec gnomesession ) and reboot or drop to single user and back up or try from a terminal init 3 <~~might not be right(its been a while since i used linux) the command man init will explain it

The Nvidia shell script from the site is awesome. Open a terminal and su to root if your not logged in as root already. type init 3 and hit enter, youll go into text mode. then type sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-4363.run and hit enter again. itll ask if you accept the license bla bla bla hit accept and after a while itll be done. if you wanna go back to the GUI type init 5.