On Mon, Apr 7, 2008 at 4:12 PM, Ned Slider <nedslider at f2s.com> wrote: > Akemi Yagi wrote: > > > Way to go, Ned. > > > > Akemi > > You're too kind! > > Question: I already have the RPMForge/dkms driver installed on all my > machine(s). How do I best disable/remove the drivers to simulate a fresh > install for the purpose of taking notes. I can't remember if I had to > configure anything or if it was just a case of installing the RPMForge repo > and yum installing dkms and the appropriate nvidia driver. I guess I need to > rpm -e them and manually reconfigure xorg.conf back to using the original > xorg "nv" driver? (just checked - I do have a backup of my original pristine > vanilla xorg.conf using the "nv" driver) Regarding the installation, yum install should take care of dependencies for things like dkms. dkms intern pulls gcc and kernel-devel among other things. There is one potential issue here. If the user is running a non-standard kernel (such as xen), then kernel-devel must be installed manually (kernel-xen-devel, for example). If you are going to delete the nvidia driver to do a simulation, I think rpm -e removes *most* of the stuff installed. I say "most" because, the original installation of nvidia.ko may have created symlinks in /lib/modules/ and these symlinks are apparently NOT removed by the uninstall script of the nvidia rpm. This may no be so important for your testing but just in case. Akemi