[elrepo] elrepo Digest, Vol 11, Issue 1

Phil Perry phil at elrepo.org
Wed May 12 07:01:56 EDT 2010


Alan Bartlett wrote:
> On 12 May 2010 09:01, Daniele Capocelli <danielecapocelli at hotmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> First of all, if something goes wrong, would it be enough to roll back to
>> working configuration with nv open source driver restoring the previously
>> saved xorg.conf? How should I uninstall the driver installed through yum,
>> since i don't think it has an uninstall procedure as the nvidia official
>> one?
> 
> Daniele,
> 
> As you will have installed the packages like this:
> 
> yum --disablerepo=\* --enablerepo=elrepo install kmod-nvidia-PAE nvidia-x11-drv
> 
> then you can remove them, if necessary, by using "yum":
> 
> yum remove kmod-nvidia-PAE nvidia-x11-drv
> 
> Regards,
> Alan.

Indeed, and just to add to what Alan says, after removing the nvidia 
RPMs, restore a working xorg.conf with the "nv" driver and reboot to 
complete the process.

Regards,

Phil




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