[wplug] geforce4 and redhat

[Tom McCullough]

okay I just stepped out of the frying pan and into the fire!
I had no luck getting the 3com or nvidia nforce2 NICs working on the 
ASUS A7N8X mobo, so I downloaded the public beta for RH 8.1 (phoebe 
8.0.94) and did an upgrade.  It recognizes everything on the mobo 
including both NICs and I think the sound.  everything chugs along great 
until X starts up.  now the Chaintech geforce4 ti 4200 video card that 
was working fine with RH 8.0 and the nvidia drivers (from the nvidia 
site) goes to a black raster.  the monitor is getting sync signals, a 
faint outline is visible at the edges of the screen, and two brief 
flashes occur.  I can blindly type <ctl>+<alt>+f1 and my username 
<enter> password <enter> reboot <enter> and the computer complies. The 
boot gives no fails and no warnings, but as soon as it should shift to 
the X screen, nothing but black raster.  I can't find XF86Config-4  when 
I boot the first disk and try a rescue command line. It should be in 
/etc/X11/, right?
Can I pass a runlevel 1 to the kernel during boot so X doesn't start?  I 
am using grub.
I tried init=1 in the boot line, no luck.
Thanks in advance.
Tom..................