[mythtv-users] How can I remove a maually installed nvidia driver?

[Damian]

Damian wrote:
> William wrote:
>> Damian wrote:
>>> I installed the nvidia driver 173.08 manually, but I want to get rid of 
>>> it and nothing I do seems to work. Can anyone help?
>>>
>>> I'm using Ubuntu 8.04 and downloaded the driver from nvidia. It seemed 
>>> to install ok, but breaks things as my CPU does not have SSE. I just 
>>> need to remove it.
>>>
>>> Looking forward to reading the trick if anyone knows
>>> Damian
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>> Its been a while but doesn't the nvidia*****.run file have a --uninstall 
>> option? Be sure to change xorg.conf back to the nv driver before you do 
>> your uninstall.
>>
>> William
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> 
> So, maybe simply:
> sudo ./NVIDIA-Linux-x86-173.08.pkg1.run --uninstall
> I'll give it a go.
> 
> Thanks
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That worked a treat! Thanks a lot. So much google searching and I never 
found that. So simple. Wish I'd known it 2 weeks ago!

Cheers
Damian