On Mon, 2008-04-07 at 17:42 -0700, Akemi Yagi wrote: > 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). Mention of The Xen-Kernel: Just a thought here. I never used the proprietary nvidia driver with the xen kernel on any install of it I've done. But I beg to know why would you even want to run that when you running Xen? If your running Xen then your not after video acceleration correct? You after I/O and Memory Bandwidth. It's not a problem if you two want to validate a driver install of this weird nature. I can do this. I have the extra machine for testing purposes. The only type of people that would maybe use this combination would be strictly Developers. I can see someone now, I have a Dell Poweredge 1950 with a on board nvidia card and it runs the Xen Hypervisor!!! Only connection to it is a Serial Console! > 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 > _______________________________________________ > CentOS-docs mailing list > CentOS-docs at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-docs -- ~/john OpenPGP Sig:BA91F079