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#1 2008-11-19 14:57:05
- dhave
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[SOLVED] Cleaning up after a stock NVIDIA driver install
Several times in the past year, to update my NVIDIA drivers I've used the stock NVIDIA installers that can be downloaded from the NVIDIA site. Once or twice I've used AUR to update my drivers.
I'd like to go entirely with AUR as a way of eliminating a set of troubleshooting variables and since I have more confidence in Arch packagers to produce a good installation for Arch.
My question: Does anyone know how best to clean up after a stock NVIDIA installation prior to using AUR to install NVIDIA drivers?
The driver series in question is the one for, among others, the Quadro FX570M graphics card. It currently at 177.80, I believe.
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#2 2008-11-19 15:24:16
- u_no_hu
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Re: [SOLVED] Cleaning up after a stock NVIDIA driver install
IIRC nvidia installer had a --uninstall option . Is that what you are looking for?
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#3 2008-11-19 15:56:45
- dhave
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Re: [SOLVED] Cleaning up after a stock NVIDIA driver install
IIRC nvidia installer had a --uninstall option . Is that what you are looking for?
Will that alone do the job? I was under the impression that the stock installer did a few things that needed to be manually undone, or so I think I remember reading somewhere.
At any rate, I've done the --uninstall and am going to live with that for now.
Thanks.
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#4 2008-11-19 23:37:16
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Re: [SOLVED] Cleaning up after a stock NVIDIA driver install
This post prompted me to combine some scripts that I had into pacpal.
Use the "--list-unpackaged <dir1> <dir2>" option to find leftover nvidia files, e.g. if you think there might be a few left in "/usr/":
pacpal --list-unpackaged /usr/.
That should find anything that isn't part of an installed package.
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#5 2008-11-20 00:07:58
- Daenyth
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Re: [SOLVED] Cleaning up after a stock NVIDIA driver install
Also for future reference, the "nvidia" package in the main repos is the stock nvidia stuff. You can use ABS to recompile for your kernel version.
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#6 2008-11-20 07:09:57
- dhave
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Re: [SOLVED] Cleaning up after a stock NVIDIA driver install
Thanks, everybody, for the very helpful info. I've tagged this thread "solved", but if anybody has something else to add, don't hesitate.
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