Nvidia driver installation and reversion
by Feanor from LinuxQuestions.org on (#6CZPV)
Hey all
Fresh difficulties after finally getting a slackware 15.0 install up and running, KDE desktop.
The pre-packaged nouveau drivers work pretty well on the old ASUS 6600 graphics card that came with the machine and I am willing to leave it at that for my purposes, but before committing to the installation I tried out the nvidia driver install from slackbuilds, as usual.
The non-legacy version did not work on an earlier install attempt, so I went with the oldest, the 340 legacy in the hopes that the old card is still supported by them.
Installed the nouveau blacklist as usual, and then the kernel bit, and then the drivers proper with all the extras linked on the slackbuilds page included.
Building the packages finishes, but there are C++ warnings (not unexpected).
Installed the packages with installpkg.
Unfortunately, after installing the xorg.conf file generated by nvidia-xconfig and trying to start up X with KDE as a normal user. No dice. No graphics mode change and it drops back to shell.
So I attempt to revert by removepkg of the two nvidia packages and removepkg the blacklist.
I remove any xorg.conf.
Trying to run startx now does not work, with X log errors about failing to find glx and various other libraries.
How to get back to default nouveau configuration? - it seems the removal of the nvidia drivers took some things with it that it shouldn't have, perhaps?
Any help?
Thanks
Fresh difficulties after finally getting a slackware 15.0 install up and running, KDE desktop.
The pre-packaged nouveau drivers work pretty well on the old ASUS 6600 graphics card that came with the machine and I am willing to leave it at that for my purposes, but before committing to the installation I tried out the nvidia driver install from slackbuilds, as usual.
The non-legacy version did not work on an earlier install attempt, so I went with the oldest, the 340 legacy in the hopes that the old card is still supported by them.
Installed the nouveau blacklist as usual, and then the kernel bit, and then the drivers proper with all the extras linked on the slackbuilds page included.
Building the packages finishes, but there are C++ warnings (not unexpected).
Installed the packages with installpkg.
Unfortunately, after installing the xorg.conf file generated by nvidia-xconfig and trying to start up X with KDE as a normal user. No dice. No graphics mode change and it drops back to shell.
So I attempt to revert by removepkg of the two nvidia packages and removepkg the blacklist.
I remove any xorg.conf.
Trying to run startx now does not work, with X log errors about failing to find glx and various other libraries.
How to get back to default nouveau configuration? - it seems the removal of the nvidia drivers took some things with it that it shouldn't have, perhaps?
Any help?
Thanks