[packman] nvidia-settings

[Ys]

On Fri, 06 Sep 2013 13:07:45 +0200
Wolfgang Bauer <e9325712 at student.tuwien.ac.at> wrote:

> Am Freitag, 6. September 2013, 10:36:34 schrieb Ys:
> 
> > Nope,  running that command on my system shows this:
> > (without nvidia-settings installed)
> > i5150pc at Animus30:~> nvidia-settings
> > If 'nvidia-settings' is not a typo you can use command-not-found to
> > lookup the package that contains it, like this: cnf nvidia-settings
> > 
> > and running directly:
> > 
> > i5150pc at Animus30:~> /usr/bin/nvidia-settings
> > bash: /usr/bin/nvidia-settings: No such file or directory
> >
> I guess that's after you uninstalled nvidia-settings, right?
> 
> Well, that is one aspect of the problem:
> If you freshly install the nvidia driver, you _will_ have
> nvidia-settings. If you then install nvidia-settings, the driver's
> version gets overwritten and is gone.
> If you uninstall nvidia-settings again, the binary
> (/usr/bin/nvidia-settings) gets removed, although it originally was
> installed together with the driver.
> 
> Try to run "rpm -V x11-video-nvidiaG03" and you will get messages
> about missing files. (provided you installed the driver using the rpm)
> 
> Or try to reinstall the driver _without_ installing the package
> "nvidia- settings". You should be able to run nvidia-settings
> nonetheless.
> 
> Kind regards,
> Wolfgang
> 
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This isn't going to any where, 
If you don't want that package, don't install it. (that's your choice)