nvidia install with new 2129.nptl kernel
Wolfgang
wolfgang at rpi.net.au
Wed Dec 3 12:13:04 UTC 2003
On Wed, 2003-12-03 at 23:09, Peter Backlund wrote:
> > How does one go about removing these RPM's from the system?? As the
> > system will not let me due to other packages which depend on it. I'd
> > prefer to stick to the old method, else the *.src.rpm's are available.
> > As I don't wish to wait for new RPM's to become available when new
> > kernels are released. I'd like to rebuild it when needed.
>
> Well, if you want to remove them, just run rpm -e on them. The names of
> the rpms installed will be evident by doing rpm -qa \*nvidia\*. You will
> however need to use --nodeps to uninstall nvidia-glx, and later
> re-install XFree86-MEsa-libGL to satisfy the libGL.so.1 dependency.
>
> That said, there is really no need to uninstall in order to upgrade.
> Whenever a new kernel comes out, you rebuild the src.rpm and install the
> resulting kernel-module-nvidia-driver rpm (note: you don't have to
> re-install nvidida-glx when you upgrade the kernel!).
>
> Hope this helps.
>
> /Peter
>
Thankyou Peter, will give that a try.
Wolf
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