Completely removing nVidia drivers

stokefan · #1 20th July 2005, 11:22 AM

hi all,

How is the best, cleanest way to completely remove all my nVidia drivers? I want to reinstall them with the latest ones via apt-get.

Many thanks,

stokefan

Furball · #2 20th July 2005, 02:19 PM

Do you have it installed with the driver package from the nvidia site ?
Then you can uninstall it (as root) via:

Code:

sh ./NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-1.0-7667-pkg2.run --uninstall

Replace the version number with your package's version.
Don't forget to install the rpm afterwards / modify your xorg.conf or your X won't work anymore after a reboot.

stokefan · #3 20th July 2005, 02:28 PM

i'm not sure if I have installed them just from nVidia's site Furball. I can remember trying to install them in a variety of ways you see (:o) how can i make sure that all of the drivers are removed successfully?

Thanks.

Furball · #4 20th July 2005, 02:44 PM

According to nvidia's readme, "the installer will try to uninstall (previous) versions as best as it can".
I think you're on the safe side with the above procedure.
(in /tmp there is some log file from the nvidia installer containing every action it has done, but like me you just may already have deleted it

)

stokefan · #5 21st July 2005, 09:48 AM

thanks furball, I tried your command and got an error as per below, I've also included what happens when I try to see which nVidia drivers I have already installed :

Quote:

[root@localhost stokefan]# rpm -qa | grep nvidia
nvidia-graphics7664-kmdl-2.6.11-1.27_FC3-1.0_7664-68.rhfc3.at
nvidia-graphics7664-1.0_7664-68.rhfc3.at
nvidia-graphics7664-libs-1.0_7664-68.rhfc3.at
nvidia-graphics7174-libs-1.0_7174-68.rhfc3.at
nvidia-graphics7667-kmdl-2.6.11-1.35_FC3-1.0_7667-68.rhfc3.at
nvidia-graphics7167-libs-1.0_7167-67.rhfc3.at
nvidia-graphics4363-libs-1.0_4363-65.1.rhfc3.at
nvidia-graphics-helpers-0.0.10-10.at
nvidia-graphics7174-1.0_7174-68.rhfc3.at
nvidia-graphics7667-1.0_7667-68.rhfc3.at
nvidia-graphics7667-libs-1.0_7667-68.rhfc3.at
nvidia-graphics-devices-1.0-4.rhfc3.at
nvidia-graphics7174-kmdl-2.6.11-1.27_FC3-1.0_7174-68.rhfc3.at

Quote:

[root@localhost stokefan]# sh ./NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-1.0-7667-pkg2.run --uninstall
sh: ./NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-1.0-7667-pkg2.run: No such file or directory

have you any idea why this uninstall command should not work? It's probably something really easy its just that I'm so rubbish at this

**Finalzone** · #6 21st July 2005, 10:04 AM

Try yum remove nvidia-graphics*

stokefan · #7 21st July 2005, 10:55 AM

thanks, that worked Finalzone

I've never used yum before that, I normally use apt.

It didn't let me install new drivers like so : # apt-get install nvidia-graphics7174-kmdl-$KVER, so I just went like this : # apt-get install nvidia-graphics7174, I hope it still works the same?!