Re: Google Earth woes
On Mon, 2006-10-09 at 18:13 -0500, Seb wrote:
> On Mon, 09 Oct 2006 22:19:06 +0100,
> Jo Shields <jms@osc.ox.ac.uk> wrote:
>
> [...]
>
> > The nvidia-installer indiscriminately overwrites key files in /usr,
> > leading to major system death in the event of upgraded X-related
> > packages.
>
> > The Debian packages come in three parts that you need care about.
> > nvidia-glx contains the driver for your current architecture. In order
> > to function, it requires a kernel module, provided by
> > nvidia-kernel-NVIDIAVERSION. This package doesn't actually exist - you
> > create one, by compiling against your specific kernel, using
> > "module-assistant" and "nvidia-kernel-source". More specifically, "m-a
> > prepare && m-a a-i nvidia" will download everything required to compile
> > an nvidia kernel module, create the .deb, and install it (or will use
> > your local nvidia-kernel-source package if it's newer than your mirror).
>
> > With your nvidia-kernel-NVIDIAVERSION installed, you can install
> > nvidia-glx. You may also wish to add nvidia-glx-ia32 (32-bit driver, for
> > use with 32-bit apps) and nvidia-settings (control panel thing to
> > control card settings) to the mix.
>
>
> Thanks Jo for these very helpful suggestions. Before tackling that
> though, I tried to uninstall the Nvidia driver I installed with Nvidia's
> own script using (thanks to a previous poster):
>
> sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-1.0-8774-pkg2.run --uninstall
>
> But this sort of wrecked my system because next time I tried to reboot, X
> would not come up with the usual dialog to log in. I had to install it
> again. Can I proceed as you suggest and then uninstall NVidia's driver
> like above?
No, that'll break too...
... and you've now discovered first-hand why nvidia-installer is to be
feared on any system with a "package manager"
--Jo Shields
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