Ricardo asked:

My system boots straight into an X environment (KDE). How can I stop X and go to the command line and startx 2> xoutput

I don't know whether this is the 'official' way, but this is how I've always stopped Redhat going straight into X fom boot-up: find the file /etc/inittab and look for a line in it that says something like this:

id:5:initdefault:

Edit the file, change the 5 in that line into a 3 and save the changed file. Now when you boot up, it SHOULD go to the normal text login screen. Well - it does for me.... Someone else on this list will most likely have a better way of doing what you want.

Hope that helps?

Gerald (still very much a Linux beginer!)