nvidia blues

[Scott van Looy]

Today Karl Larsen did spake thusly:

>   I had nvidia running fine on this computer using the kmod-nvidia files 
> that come from fedora. Then I was told about better nvidia software from 
> their web site. I got it and tried to install it on this computer. It did not 
> install and it ruined the older nvidia.

If you install stuff over existing stuff it'll most likely break...what 
you appear to have done is installed the livna kmod-nvidia package and its 
dependencies and then installed the nvidia binary installer over this

>   I find init has nvidia in it and it comes up broken. It writes FAILED in 
> red letters on bootup. It complains it can't find a python config file and it 
> is not there, I checked.

You've probably overwritten some of the yum installed files with nvidia 
installer files

>   Now what I would really like to do is eliminate that entry in init so I 
> can use the newer nvidia. Failing in that I need to find out what sets up the 
> nvidia with the kmod-nvidia files.

yum remove kmod-nvidia (to remove the rpm version from livna)

nvidia-installer --uninstall (to remove the binary version from nvidia)

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