[mythtv-users] Problem updating video driver to 185.18.31

[Jean-Yves Avenard]

2009/8/19 Harry Devine <lifter89 at comcast.net>:
> If I run "apt-cache search nvidia", I get a LOT of packages.  How do I know
> what to uninstall and not do major damage?  An example of some of the
> packages listed:
>
> nvidia-173-modaliases
> nvidia-180-modaliases
> nvidia-71-modaliases
> nvidia-96-modaliases
> nvidia-common
> nvidia-settings
> xserver-xorg-video-nvidia
> nvidia-glx-173
> nvidia-glx-180

None of them will break you system if removed...
Leave the xserver-xorg-video-nvidia, that's part of xorg and is the
opensource nv driver.

just for the ease of things, I would remove them all ; the most
important being nvidia-glx-xxx and nvidia-source-xxx