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

[Ian Clark]

If that doesn't work, make a backup of /etc/X11/xorg.conf

then edit that file, find the 'Device' section, which will look something
like this:

Section "Device"
    Identifier     "Videocard0"
    Driver         "nvidia"
    VendorName     "NVIDIA Corporation"
    BoardName      "GeForce 7100 GS"

EndSection


Change the 'driver' from "nvidia" to "nv" and see if that helps. It should
revert you to the open source nv driver.

It's quite likely that the installe backed up this file before installing
the driver so it might be worth looking for an xorg.conf.orig or similar.

Do not do this if you're uncomfortable working at the command line though.

2008/5/28 Damian <damian at gingermagic.co.uk>:

> 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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