nvidia install with new 2129.nptl kernel

[Wolfgang]

On Wed, 2003-12-03 at 23:09, Peter Backlund wrote:
> > How does one go about removing these RPM's from the system?? As the
> > system will not let me due to other packages which depend on it. I'd
> > prefer to stick to the old method, else the *.src.rpm's are available.
> > As I don't wish to wait for new RPM's to become available when new
> > kernels are released. I'd like to rebuild it when needed.
> 
> Well, if you want to remove them, just run rpm -e on them. The names of 
> the rpms installed will be evident by doing rpm -qa \*nvidia\*. You will 
> however need to use --nodeps to uninstall nvidia-glx, and later 
> re-install XFree86-MEsa-libGL to satisfy the libGL.so.1 dependency.
> 
> That said, there is really no need to uninstall in order to upgrade. 
> Whenever a new kernel comes out, you rebuild the src.rpm and install the 
> resulting kernel-module-nvidia-driver rpm (note: you don't have to 
> re-install nvidida-glx when you upgrade the kernel!).
> 
> Hope this helps.
> 
> /Peter
> 

Thankyou Peter, will give that a try.

Wolf