Linux newbie here. Just installed Fedora C2 w/ no problem. I d/led the drivers for my video card (On-board Intel 845) and tried to install while I was in XWindows. This didn't go so well. I installed the rpm w/ "rpm -Uvh <filename>" which returned that I must install the drivers outside of Xwindows and that I will need to run rpm -e to uninstall. No prob. Well, maybe. The intel drivers do not show up in my rpm list (rpm -qa) and when I go to install it again, it tell me that it must be uninstalled first.

Where could Fedora be hanging onto the information that this rpm may be installed? I tried all sorts of rpm -e commands, to no avail.

On a similar note: how can I stop my machine from loading xwindows? I have to install the drivers from a regular shell, but can't stop KDE or GNOME from loading.

Thanks,
Dan

You can exit Xwindow just by loging out of kde. Also, you can set your default environment to level 3 (full multiuser with network), instead of level 5 (with X).
Regarding rpm, try to rebuild the db.
rpm -rebuilddb (I guess. Check it with man rpm)

In the file /etc/inittab you will find a line like:

# Default runlevel. (Do not set to 0 or 6)
id:5:initdefault:

edit the line to read id:3:initdefault: and after next reboot the computer will start at a command line interface (CLI).

HTH,
mark

I just noticed the
part so I should probably elaborate bit more

After you get the driver installed you will need to re-edit the inittab file back to id:5:initdefault: to get a graphical login on boot., if you are OK with any of the CLI text editors it will be easy but if not the best way to go might be a to use the graphical login first to start a session other that Gnome when you log in.

IIRC when i used FC1 there was an option at login to choose another "session" and one of those was a CLI, sorry for the waffle

mark

Thanks for the tips. I have tried the rpm -rebuilddb route, to no avail.
I'll try all of this outside of xwindows, now that I know how to get out.
Dan