[PLUG] Upgrading a video driver

alan alan at clueserver.org
Mon Apr 9 20:20:17 UTC 2007


On Mon, 9 Apr 2007, Richard C. Steffens wrote:

> What do I need to save when I upgrade a video driver so that if the
> upgrade is worse than the original I can revert to the original?
>
> I recall trying to upgrade my video driver at one point some months ago,
> only to find that the upgrade didn't work very well. I don't remember
> how I finally got back to the old driver, but I figure there must be a
> "correct" way to approach the process so I can easily undo it, if it
> turns out not to work.
>
> My installation is SuSE 10.1, and my video card is nVidia GeForce2 MX/MX
> 400. I've found SuSE specific instructions at the nVidia site, and will
> continue to follow those, but it isn't immediately clear which version
> to use. That reinforces my desire to know what I did months ago so I can
> always revert to the driver I'm using now.

You are going to have problems with the current 97xx drivers.  (It will 
probably error out and claim that chipset is no longer supported.)  Look 
in nvidia's software archive for the last of the 96xx series driver for 
your architecture.

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