How to uninstall nvidia drivers in runlevel3

[Pete Travis]

On Mon, 2011-12-26 at 15:56 -0600, Kevin Martin wrote:
> 
> 
> On 12/26/2011 03:15 PM, Reindl Harald wrote: 
> > 
> > Am 26.12.2011 22:07, schrieb Lawrence Graves:
> > > I would like to do an update on my Dell 9400 Inspiron which is running 275.43 nvidia drivers. Is there a command
> > > that will allow me this option if need. Please help.
> > yum remove packagename
> > 
> > if you have decided to install without rpm-packages consult the manual
> > of your diver package
> > 
> > 
> > 
> Lawrence,
> 
>  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.
> 
> Kevin


The difference between installing from the NVIDIA website and from
rpmfusion is that you CANNOT update using yum.  Nvidia does not offer a
fedora repo, just one big blob.  Your information is not correct.