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damian at gingermagic

May 28, 2008, 2:17 AM

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How can I remove a maually installed nvidia driver?

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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mythtv at mikeholden

May 28, 2008, 3:18 AM

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Re: How can I remove a maually installed nvidia driver? [In reply to]

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

Without knowing how you installed it, we can't tell you how to remove it!

Was it packaged (rpm, apt-get), or a tarball?

What commands did you run to install it?

Where are the files it installed?

What methods have you tried to use to remove it?

What problems did you encounter?

Error messages?

Help us to help you!
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william_munson at comcast

May 28, 2008, 3:22 AM

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Re: How can I remove a maually installed nvidia driver? [In reply to]

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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arbrandes at gmail

May 28, 2008, 3:25 AM

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Re: How can I remove a maually installed nvidia driver? [In reply to]

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 did it when upgrading from Ubuntu 7.10 to 8.04, and to accomplish it
I used Alberto Milone's "envy" script. I believe option number 1 was
"Remove All Traces of the Nvidia Driver".

However, Ubuntu 8.04 now has envy in it's repos, named "envyng", and it
seems to focus only on stable versions of the Nvidia drivers (up to
169.XX, I believe). I don't know why that is and I haven't used it, so
I don't know if an "aptitude install envyng" will help solve your problem.

Adolfo
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damian at gingermagic

May 28, 2008, 4:03 AM

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Re: How can I remove a maually installed nvidia driver? [In reply to]

Mike Holden 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
>
> Without knowing how you installed it, we can't tell you how to remove it!
>
> Was it packaged (rpm, apt-get), or a tarball?
>
> What commands did you run to install it?
>
> Where are the files it installed?
>
> What methods have you tried to use to remove it?
>
> What problems did you encounter?
>
> Error messages?
>
> Help us to help you!

Sorry for the lack of information. I often struggle to know what
information to give and sending ALL informations (logs etc) just feels
like spamming.

I installed the driver with something along these lines (found in my
google notebook):

1. Download the drivers from nVidia website to your home.
2. Open a terminal and type: sudo chmod +x
NVIDIA-Linux-x86-169.12.pkg1.run
3. Hit CTRL+ALT+F1 to exit from the X windows system and go to a shell.
4. Login with your username/password.
5. type: sudo killall gdm
6. type: sudo ./NVIDIA-Linux-x86-173.08.pkg1.run
7. Follow the installer instructions. It�s really easy and it only
ask you a couple of questions.
8. Reboot.
9. If your X doesn�t work properly open a terminal and type
nvidia-xconfig .Then hit CTRL+ALT+BACKSPACE to restart the XWindow System.

To remove the drivers, I've tried removing everything refering to nvidia
in the synaptic package manager. I've also tried using EnvyNG to remove
all nvidia drivers. Something is getting left behind though because I'm
still getting a message that the NVIDIA drivers only support CPU's with
SSE when I try to run certain things.

Damian
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damian at gingermagic

May 28, 2008, 4:10 AM

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Re: How can I remove a maually installed nvidia driver? [In reply to]

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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>> mythtv-users [at] mythtv
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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.

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mrrooster at gmail

May 28, 2008, 4:26 AM

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Re: How can I remove a maually installed nvidia driver? [In reply to]

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>:

> 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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> >> mythtv-users [at] mythtv
> >> http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
> >>
> >>
> > 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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damian at gingermagic

May 28, 2008, 4:59 AM

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Re: How can I remove a maually installed nvidia driver? [In reply to]

Damian wrote:
> 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
>>> _______________________________________________
>>> mythtv-users mailing list
>>> mythtv-users [at] mythtv
>>> http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
>>>
>>>
>> 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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That worked a treat! Thanks a lot. So much google searching and I never
found that. So simple. Wish I'd known it 2 weeks ago!

Cheers
Damian
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