NVidia from Livna seems to have broken X

[Lonni J Friedman]

On 10/29/06, Claude Jones <claude_jones at levitjames.com> wrote:
> On Sun October 29 2006 10:48 am, Lonni J Friedman wrote:
> > Is this problem specific to Livna's repackaging of the NVIDIA
> > driver, or is it also present in the official driver package
> > from NVIDIA's website?
>
> I don't know, because I didn't try the official NVIDIA package.
> I'm booted into rescue mode now, and I've got a prompt, but I'm
> sort of flailing around - I tried "yum remove
> kmod-nvidia-(etc..)" but it's choking on the updates mirrors - I
> suppose things are still pretty busy on the mirrors.

If by 'rescue mode' you mean single user mode, there's no networking
in that runlevel, so yum is expected to fail for anything that
requires internet connectivity.


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