Nagging X problem

[Thomas E. Dukes]

Hello,

My system is setup to boot in runlevel 5,  I would prefer it not.  I have
changed it to runlevel 3 in the inittab and that works.  BUT, if I then want
to start X manually from the command line, it just hangs.

I'm using "startx" after logging in.  Is that the correct command?  I have
been using RedHat since early 1996 and that always worked.  Has something
changed?

TIA