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Old 10-30-2006   #1 (permalink)
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Question on Techiemoe's tutorial "Howto Install NVIDIA 3D Drivers"

I intend to go through this tutorial tonite to get my graphics card up and running, and I have a question.

If I go through this and there is an error, will a reboot take me back to my old, working, version of suse, or will I be stuck with the broken version until I get it fixed?

In other words, is the modprobe command permanent? Is it reversible?
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In other words, is the modprobe command permanent? Is it reversible?
Code:
modprobe nvidia
loads the module.

Code:
modprobe -r nvidia
unloads it.

If you want it to load at startup, you can either rely on the kernel automatic module loading, or add it to your system startup script (/etc/rc.local).

So it's nothing permanent.
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Thanks antidrugue.

I just found more suitable instructions for me here. Is there anyway of doing this so that it's reversible? Can I save my old kernel in such a way that there will still be a grub entry for it on reboot?
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