Cannot uninstall 1.3 drivers
by Shane Ross
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Jun 20, 2009 at 1:56:22 am
I ran the uninstaller a good 8 times, restarting every time. But no matter what, the MXO2 drivers will NOT uninstall. I would like to get up to 1.5 but I need to uninstall first, and I can't.
Re: Cannot uninstall 1.3 drivers by Andy Mees on Jun 20, 2009 at 4:45:10 am
weird ... I'll bet some part of the old installation got uninstalled but some error (permissions maybe?) caused it to fail to complete the job ... and now because the uninstaller can't find the item it did uninstall it thinks its done its job and quits
you're probably going to have to uninstall by hand:
delete the com.matrox.vpg kext files from your /System/Library/Extensions folder
then in the Finder press Cmd-Shift-G (Go > Go to Folder) and type "/usr/libexec" (without the quotes)
delete the com.matrox.vpg.Agent file
and again in the Finder's Go to Folder dialog type "/tmp"
and delete the CleanShutdown file
now do a full shutdown of your system, then a cold boot.
you should be able to run the 1.5 installer after that
Re: Cannot uninstall 1.3 drivers by Andy Mees on Jun 20, 2009 at 6:25:57 am
hey Shane, no secret handshakes mate, I just opened up the installer package and had a look to see what was being installed and where ... there's a bunch of other stuff too but nothing that seemed relevant with regards to potentially blocking a successful reinstall/overwrite ... you could probably have used the shareware "Pacifist" app to the same effect but that wouldn't have been as much fun :-)
