nvidia blues

Karl Larsen k5di at zianet.com
Tue Oct 30 12:57:56 UTC 2007


Andy Green wrote:
> Somebody in the thread at some point said:
>
>   
>>>     I did both of those earlier. I got a new kmod-nvidia file from the
>>> update today. It figures because I got a new kernel yesterday.
>>>       
>> What I want is a way to get the broken init call deleted. If I goto
>> /etc/rc.d/init.d/ I see the nvidia init entry and would like to
>> un-install it. But I do not know how to.
>>     
>
> One of the cool things about rpm is it maintains a database of which
> package is responsible for which file.  When you have a question like
> that, you can do
>
> rpm -q --whatprovides /etc/rc.d/init.d/nvidia
>
> or whatever the actual filename is.  If any package owns it, it will be
> shown, and you can rpm -e the package to get rid of it wholesale.
>
> If no package claims it, it's up to you to nuke it by hand.
>
> -Andy
>
>   
    WOW! It sure did work fine! The rpm -q --whatprovides worked and I 
deleted that rpm and then reran the run file and here I am back up with 
a 1280x1024 screen. Beats the heck out of 800x600 :-)

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	Karl F. Larsen, AKA K5DI
	Linux User
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