On 12/26/2011 01:56 PM, Kevin Martin wrote:
If you got the drivers from the nVidia website and you are in runlevel 3 you don't need to do an uninstall to do the update as the nVidia module is not loaded yet. just run "yum update" and it will update, although beware what it updates to as far as your video driver(s) are concerned.
I was under the impression that the drivers from nVidia were a binary blob that installed a hacked kernel, hacked some of your system libraries and installed the drivers without going through yum, rpm or any other package manager, making them distro-agnostic. Unless my information's badly out of date, you have to do this again every time there's a kernel update. The blob's supposed to have an uninstall function, but it doesn't always (ever?) restore the original versions of the hacked libraries. This is why I always recommend using the kmod/akmod version of the drivers instead of the binary blob.
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