On 4/19/06, Wong Kwok-hon <kwokhon@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 4/20/06, Paul Lemmons <paul.lemmons@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Thanks, It has been a while since I had installed the drivers. Fortunately > > I still had the original installer on a thumb drive. I ran it with > > "--uninstall". It complained a little but did succeed. I rebooted and sure > > enough, all I got was a login prompt; No GUI. I yum installed the > > kernel-module-nvidia... package and rebooted again, just for fun, and > > everything came up. > > > > Thank you all for your assistance! > > > > > > On Wed, 2006-04-19 at 10:54 -0700, Lonni J Friedman wrote: > > Use the --uninstall option. > > > > On 4/19/06, Paul Lemmons <Paul.Lemmons@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > Ok... this was a scary article... > > > > > > It does lead to another question though. I do have the drivers from the > > > vendor installed. Do I need to uninstall them before I install the livna > > > version? If so, how? > > > > > As I tried yesterday, the Nvidia driver download from Nvidia 8756 putt > into a path /usr/X11R6/lib which is wrong and X11 in Fedora Core 5 is > renamed which is /usr/lib/xorg/modules and some path changed. So If u > install the Nvidia driver from Nvidia site which is faster than livna > but need to put it into right path by manual or making a symbolic link > to it. I have tried and it also work... None of the symlinks are neccesary. See: http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=68681 -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ L. Friedman netllama@xxxxxxxxx LlamaLand http://netllama.linux-sxs.org
