How do I exit X in FC6?
Need to install drivers for the graphics card, but I cant quite figure out how to exit Xwondows.

Ctrl+Alt+Backspace
I belive it is the same for all distros.

Doesnt work for me.
CTRL + ALT + F2 works for me, but when I try to install the drivers it says X is running.

CTRL-ALT-BACKSPACE does work, it is an X.org hook, not a distribution hook.

In any case, instead of pressing CTRL-ALT-F2 just open a terminal and as root, run:
This will stop X.org and take you to a shell.

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Try: killall -9 x
If it doesn't work try: telinit 3 as root
If it says telinit isn't found, try init 3
If it still doesn't work, try to find the config file where the default run level after boot is.
Then change it to 3, so X won't start after you reboot.

edited: BiOPSY replied by the time i wrote this

That just restarts X and thats it.

That works, thanks alot man.

Technically, it does kill X.

The graphical display manager will restart X itself if it's not running while in init 5. So, when you kill X with ctrl-alt-backspace in init 5, GDM just restarts X.

BiOPSY's way (init 3) is how I always do it.

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sudo /etc/init.d/gdm stop

or

sudo /etc/init.d/kdm stop

Fedora Core doesn't work like that.
The preferred desktop manager is decided using
In any case, the equivalent of what you are trying to suggest would be:
Fedora Core != Debian

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