Hello,
At last, I've come around to upgrading my kernel, after
upgrading all the other applications to 9.2 when it came
out. I got a fright when mandrake wouldn't boot (actually,
it did but X didn't start, which comes to the same for me).
My lilo.conf was a bit mixed up, but I managed to boot with
the rescue cd and modify it, so that I can now boot with
the old kernel.
From searching the archives of this list and doing a lot of
reading, I know that kernel images are installed side by
side. So now I have:
vmlinuz-2.4.22-21mdk
vmlinuz-2.4.21-0.13mdk
My question concern the nvidia driver. I have downloaded
from the club:
NVIDIA_kernel-2.4.22.21mdk-4496-2.2.92mdk.i586.rpm
but I am hesitating to urpmi it, because I don't understand
how it would affect my current setup.
If after installing the nvidia driver, there are any
problem, I need to be able to boot with the old kernel (the
one I am using now). I don't want to be in a situation
where the new one doesn't work and the old one got broken
because of conflicting nvidia driver version.
I am not sure I express myself clearly here:
Are the different versions of nvidia kernel modules
installed side by side, like the kernel is?
If I install the new module to use with the new kernel, will
I still be able to use the old nvidia driver with the old
kernel (a configuration that I know is working now)?
If things go wrong, what would I then need to do in order to
be able to boot and use X (my lifeline to get help...).?
Lilo.conf is now setup to boot with the old kernel by
default, but an option for the new kernel exists too. How
should I modify it to select specific versions of nvidia
drivers for each kernel image?
thanks,
Augustin
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because
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