[linux-audio-user] Planet/Fedora/Nvidia Problem

[Greg Reddin]

Thanks everyone.

I'll give these ideas a try tonight.

Greg

--- Gian Paolo Mureddu <Thetargos at tutopia.com> wrote:
> 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
> >
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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.


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