[newbie] Reconfiguring X

[Penhockey2]

Yesterday I had a power outage while inside KDE, and my X server wasn't able 
to shutdown properly.  Now whenever I startup Mandrake, and thus when it goes 
into the graphical login, I get a garbled mess on my screen indicating my X 
settings have been corrupted (if I shall use the term correctly).  What I 
wish to know is to how to abort starting X automatically on startup so I can 
reconfigure X from VC.

I appreciate any response or help.

Kenny