On Wed, 30 Oct 2002, Haines Brown wrote: > Lawson, > > At this point I'm only trying to back out of my abortive nVidia driver > install and get back to the nv driver that came with my RedHat 7.3 > distribution. > > To do that, I recovered my old XF86Config-4 file. The rpm install for > the driver commented out lib.GLcore.a and libglx.a, which I restored. > > Third, I wanted to uninstall the driver RPM. First, I used rpm -ql on > NVIDIA_kernel to get the driver's name. The one return was > /lib/modules/2.4.18-10/kernel/drivers/video/NVdriver. Then I ran: rpm -Uvh > NVdriver. Unfortunately, "no such file." Apparently I can't run the x > server without this uninstall, and apparently I'm not going about it in > the right way.
Are you trying to uninstall that? Not with -U you can't. Mind I've never tried to uninstall an rpm, but uninstall is spelled -e or --uninstall -U is upgrade, essentially the same as install. > Unfortunately, nVidia's support list works through a web page, and > since I've lost my X server, it does me no good (I used to rely on > lynx, and now I see that I've got it on Linux! I'll try to use it to > reach nVidia). My gnus gets into a loop (no fun when it happens from a > terminal), and so I can't pursue these issues on an appropriate > newsgroup unless I can somehow telnet into the newsgroup (something > I've never tried). Wow; all this takes me back to my DOS days! > > Haines Brown > Lawson -- ---oops--- ________________________________________________________________ Sign Up for Juno Platinum Internet Access Today Only $9.95 per month! Visit www.juno.com - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs
