Video horror after foolish nvidia installation

[vaporjourney]

I recently made the huge mistake of installing an nvidia driver, although I have an ATI video card. I was doing this to help with a Google Earth installation. I don't have a good excuse for doing this, but I basically did the installation without thinking. Google Earth wound up working fine, and when I closed Google Earth, my display hasn't been the same since. Now all I can get is a black screen with a white cursor. I"ve tried rebooting, and it will begin the startup process and once it gets to the login screen, the video goes out of whack, black, and I can't see a thing. Is there anyway to undo the damage that I've done? I can't see a thing on the monitor to be able to change settings, or get to a terminal, etc.

thanks for the help

[tunerX]

boot single user, remove the driver, and regenerate your xorg.conf file.

Search the forums for each step.

[Dan]

Hmmm.

Try this:

When the system first starts to boot, press the {Esc} key to stop grub. FOllowing on screen instructions, edit the boot line by adding a siimple 3 to the end of it, then boot the system according to instructions on screen.

When you get to the prompt to log in, go ahead and log in as root, then run this command.

yum erase *nvidia*

Then reboot. (using the command " reboot ") Your system should come back to the GUI without the nvidia driver. Once you're in, then you can install the correct accelerated driver.


Dan

[vaporjourney]

ok, new problem.

I was able to sign in as single user and erase the nvidia driver. now I am able to actually sign in. now my problem is that the screen resolution is all messed up and there are stripes across the screen, and nothing is legible. Any ideas?

when i was having trouble with the nvidia driver, I actually was able to log in on another version of f10 at the boot screen, and tried to change the resolution in that setup...and when changing resolution, got these stripes. So...I switched over to the other boot option, the one that was initially a black screen, now fixed from single-user mode. Now both f10 boot options have this striped screen look. Can I change resolution from single=user mode somehow or do anything else to fix this???

thanks again.

[Dan]

Try deleting the /etc/X11/xorg.conf file (if there is one.)

[vaporjourney]

well, I have no xorg.conf file. Any other ideas?