How to uninstall nvidia drivers in runlevel3

[Lawrence Graves]

On 12/26/2011 03:21 PM, Joe Zeff wrote:
> On 12/26/2011 01:56 PM, Kevin Martin wrote:
>>   If you got the drivers from the nVidia website and you are in runlevel
>> 3 you don't need to do an uninstall to do the update as the nVidia
>> module is not loaded yet.  just run "yum update" and it will update,
>> although beware what it updates to as far as your video driver(s) are
>> concerned.
>
> I was under the impression that the drivers from nVidia were a binary 
> blob that installed a hacked kernel, hacked some of your system 
> libraries and installed the drivers without going through yum, rpm or 
> any other package manager, making them distro-agnostic.  Unless my 
> information's badly out of date, you have to do this again every time 
> there's a kernel update.  The blob's supposed to have an uninstall 
> function, but it doesn't always (ever?) restore the original versions 
> of the hacked libraries.  This is why I always recommend using the 
> kmod/akmod version of the drivers instead of the binary blob.
I don't know if you recalled the problems I was having installing the 
290.10 nvidia drivers. There was a thread started concerning this 
problem. The problem was solved with the downloading of the nvidia 
drivers 275.43 from nvidia.com at their recommendation. They had to be 
loaded under the auspicious of runlevel3 and this was done with the help 
Kevin Martin. If you have a fix using akmod/kmod I will certainly be 
open to receiving instruction on how to do it. Thanks for your imput in 
this matter.
-- 
Lawrence Graves All things are workable but don't all things work.
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