Uninstall nvidia binary drivers

Loïc Martin loic.martin3 at gmail.com
Thu Oct 19 06:32:33 UTC 2006


Alex Janssen a écrit :
> John Dangler said the following on 10/18/2006 02:33 PM:
>> On Wed, 2006-10-18 at 20:21 +0200, Loïc Martin wrote:
>>   
>>> Hi,
>>> I'd like to test nvidia new drivers (1.0-9626 ) on Edgy, but before
>>> installing them I'd like to know if it's possible to easily remove them.
>>>
>>> Is there an application that can keep track of the files dropped/changed
>>> by the installer, so I can easily remove them when I want?
>>>     
>> I installed 2 different versions of the nvidia drivers on Dapper, and I
>> can't seem to get rid of the older version.  Every time I reboot, X
>> won't start until I killall gdm, rmmod nvidia, modprobe nvidia, and
>> restart glm.  So, my conclusion would be that once multiples are
>> installed, the first version is the one that will be loaded by default.
>>
>> John
>>   
> Using "sudo apt-get remove nvidia-glx" doesn't remove all of the binary nvidia 
> drivers?
> 
> Alex
> 
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1.0-9626 hasn't been packaged yet, and I don't know when or if it will
be for Edgy (and Dapper), so I don't think they will appear in the list
of installed applications.
Loïc




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