[arch-general] Can I downgrade the nvidia driver w/o downgrading the kernel?

[David C. Rankin]

On Saturday 22 August 2009 03:05:38 am Xavier wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 22, 2009 at 3:16 AM, Denis A. Altoé
> 
> Falqueto<denisfalqueto at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi, Nezmer.
> >
> > I didn't understand what you mean. Did you suggest to uninstall the
> > official nvidia package before all the instructions you cite? I think
> > that would not afect the compilation, because the new package is built
> > on a fakeroot environment, isolated from the real system. But I may
> > have misunderstood you.
> 
> I don't think it would affect the compilation either. But not for the
> reason you give. Simply because most packages are not compiled against
> themselves.
> 
> BTW fakeroot is not an environment isolated from the real system - man
>  fakeroot fakeroot  -  run a command in an environment faking root
> privileges for file manipulation
> 

Redshift, Dieter, Nathan, Xavier, all

	Thanks for you help pointing me in the right direction for the downgrade. I 
report back with the results.

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