Re: Removing nVidia

2013-02-18 Thread Joe Zeff
On 02/04/2013 05:40 PM, Marko Vojinovic wrote: On Mon, 04 Feb 2013 16:49:11 -0800 Joe Zeff wrote: Right now, my desktop computer is getting a brain transplant. Alas, the nVidia graphics card I've been using won't fit, and the new card is neither ATI nor nVidia. Now, I know that once it's up

Re: Removing nVidia

2013-02-04 Thread Joe Zeff
On 02/04/2013 08:28 PM, Edward M wrote: On 2/4/2013 8:22 PM, Edward M wrote: On 2/4/2013 7:10 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: Will I need to do anything about the grub template? By grub template, you mean the files in /etc/grub.d, they are not intended to be edited, however, if you new to ad

Re: Removing nVidia

2013-02-04 Thread Edward M
On 2/4/2013 8:22 PM, Edward M wrote: On 2/4/2013 7:10 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: Will I need to do anything about the grub template? By grub template, you mean the files in /etc/grub.d, they are not intended to be edited, however, if you new to add custom menu entries, they have to be a

Re: Removing nVidia

2013-02-04 Thread Edward M
On 2/4/2013 7:10 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: Will I need to do anything about the grub template? By grub template, you mean the files in /etc/grub.d, they are not intended to be edited, however, if you new to add custom menu entries, they have to be added to 40_custom file in /etc/grub.d

Re: Removing nVidia

2013-02-04 Thread Joe Zeff
On 02/04/2013 06:10 PM, Edward M wrote: what may help is when the system has finish booting either to a command prompt or to a GUI is to run grub2-mkconfig to generate a new grub.cfg file with the new configuration settings or to manually edit the grub.cfg to reflect the new setting

Re: Removing nVidia

2013-02-04 Thread Edward M
On 2/4/2013 4:49 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: ines in /boot/grub2/grub.cfg all refer to kmod-nvidia. (At least, I think they do, but I can't exactly check right now.) Is there anything special I'll need to do, either at boot or later to tidy this up? what may help is when the system has finish

Re: Removing nVidia

2013-02-04 Thread Joe Zeff
On 02/04/2013 05:40 PM, Marko Vojinovic wrote: AFAIK, the kernel will be able to boot anyway, so you shouldn't end up with a dead system. It will load the nvidia kernel module, which will probably fail to detect any nVidia cards (since, as you say, none will be present). This might force X to fai

Re: Removing nVidia

2013-02-04 Thread Marko Vojinovic
On Mon, 04 Feb 2013 16:49:11 -0800 Joe Zeff wrote: > Right now, my desktop computer is getting a brain transplant. Alas, > the nVidia graphics card I've been using won't fit, and the new card > is neither ATI nor nVidia. Now, I know that once it's up and running > I can use either yum or yumex

Removing nVidia

2013-02-04 Thread Joe Zeff
Right now, my desktop computer is getting a brain transplant. Alas, the nVidia graphics card I've been using won't fit, and the new card is neither ATI nor nVidia. Now, I know that once it's up and running I can use either yum or yumex to get rid of all the nVidia cruft, but that's not what I