livna vs. nvidia

[Paul Lemmons]

Here is the history of my situation. It may or may not match yours.

1)  I installed the nvidia drivers from the vendor. 
    o Downloaded driver package
    o It had a name like : NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-7676-pkg1.run
    o This is a shell script and I ran it at init 3 to install it
2)  Time passes, new kernels come and I ignore them because I don't want
to mess with the nvidia driver
3)  I start noticing video oddness (Adobe looks squashed) and consider
updating video driver
4)  Posted this thread to this group and got great advice
5)  Now the part you may be looking for, I uninstalled the nvidia driver
    o Found that script I used to install it:
NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-7676-pkg1.run
    o Ran it again with --uninstall 
    o Example: ./NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-7676-pkg1.run --uninstall
    o There were some warnings but it was successful
6)  Rebooted and there was no GUI
7)  yum install kernel-module-nvidia-$(uname -r)
8)  rebooted and GUI came up
9)  Tested graphics with celestia and and Adobe it was beautiful
10) Noticed your question and here we are 

On Fri, 2006-04-21 at 11:17 +0800, Stephen Liu wrote:
> Hi Lonni,
> 
> > Use the --uninstall option.
> 
> Please advise how to uninstall "nVidis" driver on "init 3" (not GUI)