How to uninstall kmod-nvidia

Mauriat Miranda mirandam at gmail.com
Mon Dec 21 16:18:48 UTC 2009


On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 10:22 AM, Rich Emberson <emberson.rich at gmail.com> wrote:
> Installed fedora 12 on laptop. The default nvidia driver,
> nouveau worked fine but previously on laptop I had
> fedora 9 with nvidia driver so I figured I could just
> do it again.
> Following instructions from:
> http://www.mjmwired.net/resources/mjm-fedora-nvidia.html
> go nvidia driver installed.
> Problems: The panel "Kickstart Application launcher"
> when clicked now causes 100% X process CPU usage for
> 10 to 15 seconds before coming up (same with clicking a
> couple of the other widgets like the calendar).
>
> So, how does one uninstall kmod-nvidia?
>
> In a previous post I asked for help to fix the problem,
> now I'd just like to go back to the nouveau driver.

Worth looking at:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Common_F12_bugs#Problems_when_using_KDE_with_the_proprietary_NVIDIA_graphics_driver.2C_some_Radeon_dual-head_configurations.2C_or_nouveau_with_KMS_disabled

To uninstall as root, run:

# yum remove kmod-nvidia


-Mauriat




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