Uninstall nvidia binary drivers

John Dangler jdangler at atlantic.net
Thu Oct 19 19:06:21 UTC 2006


On Thu, 2006-10-19 at 08:32 +0200, Loïc Martin wrote:
> 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
> > 
> > -- 
> > Ourwoods.org
> > Charlottesville, Virginia
> > 
> > 
> 
> 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
I d/l'ed mine from nvidia and built the kernel module.  The module I
currently use (under Dapper) is 1.0-8774
> 





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