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I had installed the nVidia driver from rpmfusion-nonfree and it has been working fine for a long time(From fedora 18 I think).
But now I wanted to switch to the opensource driver, so I removed the nvidia driver(dnf erase akmod-nvidia*) and then things started to get weird.
Because with the driver removed kde5, still tries to reference the nvidia-tls*.so files(And som other opengl nvidia files I can't remember the name of) which was part of the nvidia driver. The fires are thus removed so loading of kde5 fails.
I can start the gui in failsafe mode, but if I try to start a browser such as firefox og chrome, they also both complain about missing nvidia*so files.
I even tried to remove my nVidia graphics card from my computer, and use the buildin ivy-bridge graphics for my motherboard. But even when doing that, X11 still complains about missing nvidia-tls.so file despite my computer not having any nVidia hardware at that point.
So it's like X11/Kde want to use the nvidia driver even after its been uninstalled and the hardware removed. Anyone who got a clue about what's wrong and how to solve it?
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One thing I remember now is that i originally(Before I installed the driver from rpmfusion-unfree) tried to install the nvidia driver downloaded from nvidia (http://www.nvidia.com/object/unix.html) but I newer got it to work with a compiled kernel so I have up and ran the uninstaller.
It might something gone wrong from that install, which messes up my system.
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– DavidPostill – 2015-07-07T10:26:14.4401:Yes I removed the kmod and kmod-nvidia-304xx package. 2:Not sure. (I had to reinstall the nvidia graphics card, and reinstall the akmod-nvidia driver to get a working system.). So those files obviously mentions nvidia now, but I am pretty sure they did not do that before. 3: Not explicit, but the package should do that for me, right? I have never invoked dracut explicit.
But the problem was there even when the nvidia graphics card was removed, and I used the intel driver. – MTilsted – 2015-07-07T16:31:39.573