Re: How to uninstall nvidia drivers in runlevel3

Kevin Martin <kevintm@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> · Tue, 27 Dec 2011 10:28:42 -0600



    On 12/26/2011 06:22 PM, Lawrence Graves wrote:
    
      
      On 12/26/2011 05:07 PM, Pete Travis wrote:
      
        
          On Dec 26, 2011 2:07 PM, "Lawrence Graves" <lgraves95@xxxxxxxxx>

          wrote:

          >

          > I would like to do an update on my Dell 9400 Inspiron
          which is running 275.43 nvidia drivers. Is there a command
          that will allow me this option if need. Please help.

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          > Lawrence Graves All things are workable but don't all
          things work.

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        You don't need to worry about it unless there is a kernel
          update, at which point you should reinstall the drivers so
          they build against the new kernel.Â  IIRC, that's.
          '/NVIDIA.RUN --uninstall '
        Try the kmod again while you have the nvidia ones
          uninstalled, if you like. I still haven't read where the
          default drivers were inadequate for you.... 
        

      I am going to do this for you Pete, and pray it works. I haven't
      tried this way before. I have install Fedora 16 on my laptop about
      30 times trying to get the 290.10 nvidia drivers from rpmfusion to
      installed but I never tried it this way.

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        Lawrence Graves  All things are workable
          but don't all things work.
      

    After installing the nvidia drivers from nvidia.com you will need to
    recompile them against the kernel if you've updated it.  You can do
    this by rerunning the nvidia-installer in runlevel3.  Then you
    change to runlevel5 and the nvidia driver will load.  We (Lawrence
    and I) went around and around with the kmod/akmod stuff with the
    290.10 driver and it *just wouldn't work* (he could *never* get an X
    screen).  Once there is a kmod/akmod for th 275.43 driver then I
    would suggest going back to that solution so he can update his
    kernel at will.  Until then, if he wants a working X, he's going to
    have to go about it this way.

    
    Kevin

  
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