Nvidia driver - Newbie Frags System

[Nicholas Comino <celloworld gmail com>]

I installed the Nvidia driver for a Geforce Ti4200 card. After editing the 
xorg.conf file from driver = "nv" to "nvidia" and rebooting, the system 
first hung at "Configuring kernel parameters". Rebooting into runlevel 3 was 
ok, but startx failed. I am a newbie.

questions:
1. how to access the log file which alledly contains more explanation?
2. how to open a text editor in a text prompt.
3. What caused/how to fix the problem.