Re: Need help ripping out an nvidia binary driver installed.…

Remove all traces of the nouveau driver and packages prior to installing
a blob or things go left. I had an experience getting the nvidia driver
to work under 11.10 until i just scoured for clues in the google.

-mb


On 04/26/2012 05:47 PM, Stephen wrote:
> sh /path/to/nvidia-1.0-XXXX.pkg1.run --uninstall
>
> On Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 5:30 PM, JD Austin<jd@twingeckos.com> wrote:
>> rmmod will only remove it from memory.. it isn't persistent across reboots.
>> I'm not an ubuntu guy but that's based on debian..
>>
>> Get the list of packages installed and look for the nvidia one:
>>
>> dpkg --get-selections | grep -i nvidia
>>
>> Then remove it with apt-get :
>>
>> apt-get remove<package name>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 17:15, Jim March<1.jim.march@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> ...from an Nvidia .run file.
>>>
>>> I'm on ubuntu 12.04 and the Nvidia 295.40 driver is a travesty in 64bit.
>>> So I got ahold of nvidia's 295.33 driver, killed X and installed it via
>>> Nvidia's command-line installer. Biiiiig mistake. Fried the hell out of
>>> amy graphical use whatsoever. Can't even get Nouveau to start. I think I
>>> need to yank out what Nvidia's installer did. I did an rmmod nvidia - no
>>> joy. Help? Typing this on my cellphone...sigh.
>>>
>>> Jim
>>>
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