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Greg Reddin wrote:
>This question is really more related to installing drivers to a

quoted text
>"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

>

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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.