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rescue after failed nvidia driver install? restore nouveau or basic video driver?

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http://forums.fedoraforum.org – After several failed attempts to install nvidia hardware drivers that resulted in an unusable system, I've been wondering if there is an easy way to get back the system without having to reinstall entirely? The guide on this forum is great: http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=204752 but inevitably there seem to be teething troubles. So if the nvidia driver install has gone awry, is it possible to edit grub or use a LiveCD to access the installed system and edit some other config file to restore nouveau? (HowTos)

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Hi :) How can I delete Nvidia Drivres that I have install from this guide: http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=204752

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Hi,

I've had Fedora 15 up and running on my system for a whlie using the Nvidia drivers from RPMFusion.

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http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=204752

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hi I was followingthis guide "F16,F15 & F14 Nvidia driver guides http://www.fedoraforum.org/forum/showthread.php?t=204752"and now i cant get gnome 3 to load it constantly enters fallback mode and this is my output for

rpm -qa *\nvidia\* *\kernel\*|sort;uname -r;lsmod |grep -e nvidia -e nouveau;cat /etc/X11/xorg.conf

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