On Tue, 2006-07-04 at 22:43 +0800, Deepak Shrestha wrote: > I think my problem is not going to solve right away and I can live > without nvidia acceleration for now. By the way how can i safely > remove kmod-nvidia for now? Will "yum remove kmod-nvidia" will do? I > am asking this becasue I have upgraded the kernel ( to 2.6.17) and > removed my old kernel (2.6.15) already. So i don't know if I try to > remove this kmod-nvidia, I might end up without X or something like > that??? because I saw during kmod-nvidia, it changed several settings > of X.org configs. > > [massive snip including previous sig and pgp keys] run (sudo yum remove kmod-nvidia xorg-x11-drv-nvidia) then, edit and set /etc/inittab so that you boot to runlevel 3 temporarily, and then reboot. it *should* set /etc/X11/xorg.conf back to original settings (it preserves the original); you can double check this by looking in the driver section. You should see the driver section show as "nv" instead of "nvidia". [Worst case scenario, you can trash the xorg.conf and re-run system-config-display, but save that for extreme desperate measures.] you can then run (startx) from your user account to test things. if all works well, re-edit /etc/inittab back to booting at runlevel 5.
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