NVIDIA driver uninstall?

acidblue · 07-23-2004, 12:10 AM

Is it possible to uninstall the NVIDIA driver, I got an precompile kernel not found error message, but I went and installed anyway(not good idea)and now I get crashes pretty frequently, or can I reinstall over the old driver with the right compiled kernel?

zero79 · 07-24-2004, 02:11 PM

that message during driver install is benign. it just meant that the nvidia installer had to compile the video driver kernel for your particular (GNU/Linux) kernel during the install process.

to go back to the free (as in speech and beer) nv driver, edit "/etc/X11/XF86Config" and change "Driver nvidia" to "Driver nv". you may need to re-add "Load GLCore" and "Load DRI" to the modules section.