its this 'purge' word that is creeping me out. is that command going to strip every nVidia driver i have? im thinking southbridge will be gone too and ill lose usb and memory controller and all.... how do i just dump the video driver only?
i've been given an r9 280x, much better card than my current gtx560. sorry team green, been a fanboy for years but you gots to go!
oh, the mobo is an evga 680i sli a1. yes. that old monster.
You are mistaken. There is no such thing as a nVidia Mobo. An nVidia compatible mobo just means that the pci-e supports SLI. You will not affect the southbridge or anything like that.
00:09.0 RAM memory: NVIDIA Corporation MCP55 Memory Controller (rev a2)
00:0a.0 ISA bridge: NVIDIA Corporation MCP55 LPC Bridge (rev a3)
00:0a.1 SMBus: NVIDIA Corporation MCP55 SMBus Controller (rev a3)
00:0b.0 USB controller: NVIDIA Corporation MCP55 USB Controller (rev a1)
00:0b.1 USB controller: NVIDIA Corporation MCP55 USB Controller (rev a2)
00:0d.0 IDE interface: NVIDIA Corporation MCP55 IDE (rev a1)
00:0e.0 IDE interface: NVIDIA Corporation MCP55 SATA Controller (rev a3)
00:0e.1 IDE interface: NVIDIA Corporation MCP55 SATA Controller (rev a3)
00:0e.2 IDE interface: NVIDIA Corporation MCP55 SATA Controller (rev a3)
00:0f.0 PCI bridge: NVIDIA Corporation MCP55 PCI bridge (rev a2)
00:0f.1 Audio device: NVIDIA Corporation MCP55 High Definition Audio (rev a2)
i hope you're right. these are some of the lines from lspci. i know its the mcp55, it just the word nvidia is in those lines and a whole lot more. and i don't know any thing about linux yet. as i understand it, its quite literal.
if you don't feel comfortable then don't remove them by purging. Are you running linux in a vm or native?
Yeah there are nvidia motherboards, or at least there were nvidia chipsets from back when that was a thing.
Pretty sure all those drives will be part of the kernel and won't be removed anyway, but also if you do run apt-get purge it should ask you to confirm and give you a list of what's going to be removed. Not 100% sure about that.
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good point. in my limited linux experience so far, it gives a list of what its removing, installing, and a (y/n). is there a way to make it confirm one at a time?
and Dynamic, that is exactly what i need to do. its just all the sites ive seen use the purge method. how to i just get the video driver? im running ubuntu gnome. native. yes, it is an old nvidia board. ref designed by nvidia for evga. old monster. first board to have x16 x16 sli. iirc. maybe x8x8, that seems like a lot of lanes for pci-e 1.0
If you run 'apt --package list | grep nvidia' (replace nvidia which whatever you're going to purge ) it should give you a list of all of the packages containing that phrase so yo can check if it will remove anything you need or you can use it to manually delete each package.
Still I think you'll be okay anyway as those chipsets drivers shouldn't be a package but a part of the kernel.
or you can just
rm "file" (keep in mind to do this you must be in the current working directory)
or
rmdir [p] directory
*p is for pathname
The second option will remove the entire directory. The directory must be empty.
same error.
as far as chipset being apart of the kernel. that is how i was hoping this all worked. seems to make sense.. i am going to give it a shot and report back later. thanks for all the help.
right on . thank you too.
Taken from askubuntu site:
If you want to rebuild the kernel modules only, then you might just want to execute
sudo apt-get install --reinstall nvidia-current
if you have nvidia-current installed, or if you have nvidia-331 installed then this should do the work:
sudo apt-get install --reinstall nvidia-331 (now 349/352)
also the kernel should take care of board drivers by itself.
oh and you dont need the brackets. Here read that for more info.
im getting to understand the pathways of linux thanks. and thanks for the [f]orum short cut tip.
fyi found the command. apt --installed list
Haha that's it, I knew it was something like that
so i said i'd report back, here i am. all went well with the purge. and flopped gpu's. but i am having another issue. the R9 is not performing well in linux. its a noticable improvement in windows, win 7. in linux its a step back from the gtx560. the desktop seems fine. snappy and purty. but in game its hurting. any thoughts? not sure if i should open another topic.
Which drivers are you using?