As everybody suggested I wrote to RPMFusion on how to make a clean uninstall of Kmod Nvidia. E.g.: suggested by:
*Alan Evans, who wrote: *
"It is their responsibility to explain how to uninstall that software. Simple."
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/users/2010-June/376088.html*
Todd Zullinger, who wrote: *
"If that causes you problems, please talk to the folks at RPMfusion and offer to help."
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/users/2010-June/375863.html* * *Bruno Wolff III, who wrote:
*"All of this stuff should be taken up with the RPMFusion developers."
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/users/2010-June/375971.html* *
*Dennis Gilmore, who wrote:
*"Please take up any issue you have with the nvidia drivers with either nvidia itself or the provider of the kernel module you are using."
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/users/2010-June/375864.html
*Michael Cronenworth, who wrote:*
"Please stop posting in this off-topic thread."
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/users/2010-June/375943.html
*Mikkel, who wrote:*
"Do you get the feeling that people have stopped taking you seriously?"
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/users/2010-June/376095.html
I wrote the following message to RPMFusion's list:
How do I uninstall Kmod Nvidia to make a clean Nouveau install on Fedora 12? http://lists.rpmfusion.org/pipermail/rpmfusion-users/2010-July/000697.html
http://lists.rpmfusion.org/pipermail/rpmfusion-users/2010-July/thread.html
In July, there are 6 posts on this list, 3 by me.
Fedora''s support is great so, I'm hopeful. Let's see what happens.
On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 4:26 PM, Marcel Rieux m.z.rieux@gmail.com wrote:
As everybody suggested I wrote to RPMFusion on how to make a clean uninstall of Kmod Nvidia. E.g.: suggested by:
Alan Evans, who wrote:
"It is their responsibility to explain how to uninstall that software. Simple."
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/users/2010-June/376088.html
Todd Zullinger, who wrote:
"If that causes you problems, please talk to the folks at RPMfusion and
offer to help."
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/users/2010-June/375863.html
Bruno Wolff III, who wrote:
"All of this stuff should be taken up with the RPMFusion developers."
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/users/2010-June/375971.html
Dennis Gilmore, who wrote:
"Please take up any issue you have with the nvidia drivers with either nvidia
itself or the provider of the kernel module you are using."
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/users/2010-June/375864.html
Michael Cronenworth, who wrote:
"Please stop posting in this off-topic thread."
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/users/2010-June/375943.html
Mikkel, who wrote:
"Do you get the feeling that people have stopped taking you seriously?"
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/users/2010-June/376095.html
I wrote the following message to RPMFusion's list:
How do I uninstall Kmod Nvidia to make a clean Nouveau install on Fedora 12?
http://lists.rpmfusion.org/pipermail/rpmfusion-users/2010-July/thread.html
In July, there are 6 posts on this list, 3 by me.
Fedora''s support is great so, I'm hopeful. Let's see what happens.
I am sure that your attitude and permanent rants will endear you to the rpm fusion list in the same way that they have endeared you to this one...
In the thread 'Who's moderating this forum? ", On Sat, Jul 17, 2010 at 5:12 PM, Darr darr@core.com gave a few suggestions to remove the Nvidia driver and to make Nouveau work.
Since somebody from Nouveau told me on this list that installing Nvidia drivers is not a one way ticket that will prevent users to get back to Nouveau and that RPMfusion should provide instructions to remove kmod-nvidia, I'm following the instructions provided by RPMfusion. The instructions are the following:
Disable or uninstall the nvidia driver
It is possible to disable the driver without uninstalling the nvidia package.
nvidia-config-display disable rm /etc/X11/xorg.conf
Or you can switch the Driver field from nvidia to nouveau in /etc/X11/xorg.conf You also need to verify that /boot/grub/grub.conf doesn't contain nomodeset or rdblacklist=nouveau anymore.
Then you will need to reboot. (or switch to init3 and manually unloading/loading modules.).
Once done, if you really want to uninstall the driver:
yum remove xorg-x11-drv-nvidia* livna-config-display
http://rpmfusion.org/Howto/nVidia#head-3fe8fc42e24a89aff36645e27644b1f6445a9...
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Here's what Darr suggested:
Did you undo the other steps, such as removing the blacklist in /etc/modprobe.d/ and/or any parameters added to grub.conf (e.g. rdblacklist=nouveau) ?
As you can see, Mr Chauvet, who wrote those instructions, didn't ask to check anything in /etc/modprobe.d/ . So, I didn't.
Did you remake the initramfs file with dracut (or mv the original one made before the kmod-nvidia drivers were installed back to its original name) after undoing those steps?
As you can see again the word initramfs doesn't appear anywhere in the instructions provided.
For now, I only tried to disable kmod-nvidia and, as you can see here:
http://lists.rpmfusion.org/pipermail/rpmfusion-users/2010-July/000702.html
I didn't have much success. Maybe the kernel panic was due to something I did wrong, but I retried and I suppose things should have worked afterwards. They didn't.
Since the steps/methods vary according to whichever procedure you used, generic 'undo' instructions (other than "undo all the steps of the procedure[s] you followed") is pretty-much impossible.
I've used RPMfusion's instruction to install and I'm asking RPMfusion instructions on how to uninstall.
If you want to make suggestions, you may write to Nicholas Chauvet at:
kwizart at gmail.comhttp://lists.rpmfusion.org/mailman/listinfo/rpmfusion-users
Thanks for your contribution. I'm sure that with all the competent people on this list, RPMfusion will soon have some fine instructions to remove the kmod driver on its site.
Hi Marcel,
On 17 July 2010 19:26, Marcel Rieux m.z.rieux@gmail.com wrote:
As you can see again the word initramfs doesn't appear anywhere in the instructions provided.
For now, I only tried to disable kmod-nvidia and, as you can see here:
http://lists.rpmfusion.org/pipermail/rpmfusion-users/2010-July/000702.html
I didn't have much success. Maybe the kernel panic was due to something I did wrong, but I retried and I suppose things should have worked afterwards. They didn't.
Since the steps/methods vary according to whichever procedure
you used, generic 'undo' instructions (other than "undo all the steps of the procedure[s] you followed") is pretty-much impossible.
I've used RPMfusion's instruction to install and I'm asking RPMfusion instructions on how to uninstall.
I couldn't help but notice, you didn't follow the instructions correctly as provided by Nicholas. I am also on the RPMFusion mailing list, I'll try to respond to your thread there. Please follow Nicholas' instructions to the word before complaining they don't work. And please keep the discussion in the relevant list and thread. To break threads is equivalent to discouraging posters with answers from responding to your queries. Please be mindful about this.
On Sun, Jul 18, 2010 at 3:08 AM, suvayu ali <fatkasuvayu+linux@gmail.comfatkasuvayu%2Blinux@gmail.com
wrote:
I couldn't help but notice, you didn't follow the instructions correctly as provided by Nicholas.
Please stop spreading this nonsense all over the place. I followed instructions as long as I could but then had to find a solution to get out of the problem they got me in.
See my post at:
http://lists.rpmfusion.org/pipermail/rpmfusion-users/2010-July/000705.html