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I have done an hd install on a second drive. Last night i decided to load the nvidia drivers, all went fine. I changed the default color depth to 32 from 16 (when editing my xf86config-4 for the new drivers) and rebooted. x would not start, gave me a message about the color depth not supported. I shut down and restarted with the knoppix cd thinking i could get in and edit my xf86config-4 file and change it to 24 from 32. Using kate i couldnt save the changes to the file (on hdb3 partition, file indicates root permission only). Tried to figure out how to login as root when running from the cd so i could make the change. The drive (hdb3) was mounted and given permission to write.

thanks for your help thus far!

-jamie