[mythtv-users] How can I remove a maually installed nvidia driver?

Damian damian at gingermagic.co.uk
Wed May 28 11:10:17 UTC 2008


William wrote:
> Damian wrote:
>> I installed the nvidia driver 173.08 manually, but I want to get rid of 
>> it and nothing I do seems to work. Can anyone help?
>>
>> I'm using Ubuntu 8.04 and downloaded the driver from nvidia. It seemed 
>> to install ok, but breaks things as my CPU does not have SSE. I just 
>> need to remove it.
>>
>> Looking forward to reading the trick if anyone knows
>> Damian
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> Its been a while but doesn't the nvidia*****.run file have a --uninstall 
> option? Be sure to change xorg.conf back to the nv driver before you do 
> your uninstall.
> 
> William
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So, maybe simply:
sudo ./NVIDIA-Linux-x86-173.08.pkg1.run --uninstall
I'll give it a go.

Thanks


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