On 02/04/2013 05:40 PM, Marko Vojinovic wrote:
On Mon, 04 Feb 2013 16:49:11 -0800
Joe Zeff <joe@xxxxxxx> wrote:
Right now, my desktop computer is getting a brain transplant. Alas,
the nVidia graphics card I've been using won't fit, and the new card
is neither ATI nor nVidia. Now, I know that once it's up and running
I can use either yum or yumex to get rid of all the nVidia cruft, but
that's not what I need to know.
What I want to find out is what, if anything, I'll need to do to get
it booting properly in the first place, as the kernel lines in
/boot/grub2/grub.cfg all refer to kmod-nvidia. (At least, I think
they do, but I can't exactly check right now.) Is there anything
special I'll need to do, either at boot or later to tidy this up?
AFAIK, the kernel will be able to boot anyway, so you shouldn't end up
with a dead system. It will load the nvidia kernel module, which will
probably fail to detect any nVidia cards (since, as you say, none will
be present). This might force X to fail, but not necessarily.
Anyway, in the worst-case scenario, X will fail completely, but you'll
still be able to access a text console. If that happens, login as root,
do a yum remove kmod-nvidia, delete any stale /etc/X11/xorg.conf files
you might have, and reboot. This should be enough to reset the X
configuration to something that looks like a Fedora-default, and from
that point there is a very good chance that X will autoconfigure itself
correctly and successfully, out-of-the-box (after a reboot, of course).
Sorry for so much quoted text, but I needed context. The new mobo is
here and will only boot into Maintenance Mode, with no network access.
Attempts to move to a full text boot fail. I'll try to remove both
kmod-nvidia and akmod-nvidia, but I don't know if yum will do that
off-line. If not, what next?
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