Nvidia making my head explode

livewire98801 · 04-10-2007, 03:25 AM

I'm having two issues. One, I can't figure out how to make nvidia-x11-drv-96xx from dries work right. My other problem is I can't figure out how to remove the nvidia binary drivers. I think they might be related.

I think that if I could get the nvidia binary drivers removed, my issues with the rpm would be resolved. Does anyone know what all I need to remove and reconfigure to make that happen? I've tried "nvidia-installer --remove" but it didn't do anything besides unloading and deleting the kernel module.

I'd love to post all kinds of interesting stuff here, but I don't have any idea what to start with. Could have something to do with the fact that it's nearly 130a. . .

Thanks,

Tim

Glennzo · 04-10-2007, 03:34 AM

You using Fedora / NVidia? yum remove nvidia-bla-bla or rpm -E nvidia-bla-bla. Try the Livna repo for NVidia drivers. I did and they work well. Make sure you disable dries if you do try Livna.

Crito · 04-10-2007, 07:59 AM

livna conflicts with freshrpms too. rather than disable entire repo, though, you can just exclude the offending packages.

Code:

[climber@lode yum.repos.d]$ pwd
/etc/yum.repos.d
[climber@lode yum.repos.d]$ ls -Al livna.repo
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1835 Nov 27 10:03 livna.repo
[climber@lode yum.repos.d]$ grep exclude livna.repo
exclude=mplayer* mencoder*
[climber@lode yum.repos.d]$ yum info kmod-nvidia
Loading "installonlyn" plugin
Setting up repositories
Reading repository metadata in from local files
Excluding Packages from Livna for Fedora Core 6 - x86_64 - Base
Finished
Installed Packages
Name   : kmod-nvidia
Arch   : x86_64
Version: 1.0.9755
Release: 2.2.6.20_1.2933.fc6
Size   : 9.5 M
Repo   : installed
Summary: nvidia kernel module(s)

Description:
This package provides the nvidia kernel modules built for the Linux
kernel 2.6.20-1.2933.fc6 for the x86_64 family of processors.