In the thread 'Who's moderating this forum? ", On Sat, Jul 17, 2010 at 5:12 PM, Darr <<a href="mailto:darr@core.com">darr@core.com</a>> gave a few suggestions to remove the Nvidia driver and to make Nouveau work.<br>
<br>Since somebody from Nouveau told me on this list that installing Nvidia drivers
is not a one way ticket that will prevent users to get back to Nouveau
and that RPMfusion should provide instructions to remove kmod-nvidia,
I'm following the instructions provided by RPMfusion. The instructions are the following:<br><br>Disable or uninstall the nvidia driver<br><br>It is possible to disable the driver without uninstalling the nvidia package.<br>
<br>nvidia-config-display disable<br>rm /etc/X11/xorg.conf<br><br>Or you can switch the Driver field from nvidia to nouveau in /etc/X11/xorg.conf You also need to verify that /boot/grub/grub.conf doesn't contain nomodeset or rdblacklist=nouveau anymore.<br>
<br>Then you will need to reboot. (or switch to init3 and manually unloading/loading modules.).<br><br>Once done, if you really want to uninstall the driver:<br><br>yum remove xorg-x11-drv-nvidia\* livna-config-display<br>
<br><a href="http://rpmfusion.org/Howto/nVidia#head-3fe8fc42e24a89aff36645e27644b1f6445a9ee6">http://rpmfusion.org/Howto/nVidia#head-3fe8fc42e24a89aff36645e27644b1f6445a9ee6</a><br><br>==============<br><br>Here's what Darr suggested:<br>
<br>> Did you undo the other steps, such as removing the blacklist<br>> in /etc/modprobe.d/ and/or any parameters added to grub.conf<br>> (e.g. rdblacklist=nouveau) ?<br><br>As you can see, Mr Chauvet, who wrote those instructions, didn't ask to check anything in /etc/modprobe.d/ . So, I didn't.<br>
<br>> Did you remake the initramfs file with dracut (or mv the<br>> original one made before the kmod-nvidia drivers were<br>> installed back to its original name) after undoing those steps?<br><br>As you can see again the word initramfs doesn't appear anywhere in the instructions provided.<br>
<br>For now, I only tried to disable kmod-nvidia and, as you can see here:<br><br><a href="http://lists.rpmfusion.org/pipermail/rpmfusion-users/2010-July/000702.html">http://lists.rpmfusion.org/pipermail/rpmfusion-users/2010-July/000702.html</a><br>
<br>I didn't have much success. Maybe the kernel panic was due to something I did wrong, but I retried and I suppose things should have worked afterwards. They didn't.<br><pre>> Since the steps/methods vary according to whichever procedure<br>
> you used, generic 'undo' instructions (other than "undo all the<br>> steps of the procedure[s] you followed") is pretty-much impossible.</pre>I've used RPMfusion's instruction to install and I'm asking RPMfusion instructions on how to uninstall.<br>
<br>If you want to make suggestions, you may write to Nicholas Chauvet at:<br><br><a href="http://lists.rpmfusion.org/mailman/listinfo/rpmfusion-users">kwizart at gmail.com</a><br><br>Thanks for your contribution. I'm sure that with all the competent people on this list, RPMfusion will soon have some fine instructions to remove the kmod driver on its site.<br>
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