Greg Reddin wrote: >This question is really more related to installing drivers to a >"non-booted" kernel. > >My computer has an ASUS MB. The video (non-integrated) and network >require the nforce drivers from NVidia. I had manually installed >some audio tools including a lowlat kernel under RedHat 9. But I >decided to install Fedora Core 1 and use Planet CCRMA. > >So I installed the CCRMA kernel and source. I didn't expect the >network or graphics to work when I booted the new kernel b/c I'd need >to install the NVidia drivers again under the new kernel. But when >Fedora got to the "graphic" portion of the bootup, the screen went >blank. I thought I'd just switch to VC1 and install from a text >logon, but I was never able to switch to VC1. Now, in hindsight, I >think I didn't quite wait long enough for the system to boot up so >I'll try again tonight. I was in a hurry and had to get to work this >morning. > >But, if I had to boot the standard kernel, is there a way I could >install the NVidia drivers from there? How do I tell them to compile >against the lowlat CCRMA kernel? How do I tell them to install to >the appropriate place? It doesn't seem like this would be terribly >difficult. I just don't know what parameters/environment variables >to change. > >Thanks, >Greg > >__________________________________ >Do you Yahoo!? >Get better spam protection with Yahoo! Mail. >http://antispam.yahoo.com/tools > > > Regarding your graphics problem, I'd suggest you to either boot the old kernel, and just change the driver that its being loaded in XF86Config, either to "nv" or VESA; or just edit the file /etc/inttab (you may do so in with the older kernel or from a rescue console) and change the run level to which the computer will boot (run level 5 is the X Window Syste, 3 is just VC with networking). That's done in this line: id:5:initdefault: Change the 5 for a 3 and reboot with your new kernel, install your drivers, and once you have X running smoothly (by issuing the init 5 command), you may revert to runlevel 5 in inttab. Hope this helps.
