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Today I installed the NVIDIA driver on my laptop dell inspiron 5558. I did that using the instructions here in this video

But after rebooting I'm getting this

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and I couldn't enter to the Operating system UI at all so I think that I should delete this driver.

How could I do that? or do you have another solution to my case?

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    Are you able to do a CTRL+ALT F2? switch from a graphical interface to a command line interface? Commented Sep 12, 2018 at 17:50
  • thank you for reply ....let us suppose that I could so...then what I should do after that Commented Sep 12, 2018 at 17:56

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Finally I found the best solution for this problem

1-in this screen press ctrl+Alt+F2 to open the terminal

2-write your user name and password

3-type sudo yum autoremove nvidia* then press Enter then type y to accept the remove

4-the previous command will delete that bad driver so that you could install a better driver in the future but don't do that :)

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If you need to modify grub at boot:

One option is to edit grub before selecting an image and changing your boot option to default to terminal session instead of a graphical load. the steps can be found here How do I boot into single-user mode from GRUB?. I know the answer for Ubuntu but it also works on CentOS, I have had to do this before.

If you are stuck at a graphical loading page:

If your system gets stuck trying to load a graphical interface, try and just do a CTRL+ALT F2 (RHEL based systems) and get into a terminal session.

Once your in a terminal session:

Once you are signed into the terminal session, you can just yum history to pull up your install history and reverse your installs.

RedHat gives out a really good explanation on how to use yum history to rollback installs
How to use yum history to roll back an update in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 , 7

Here is a Note for the yum history rollback from the given link.

Note: Rollback of selinux, selinux-policy-*, kernel, glibc (dependencies of glibc such as gcc) packages to older version is not supported. Thus, downgrading a system to minor version (ex: RHEL6.1 to RHEL6.0) is not recommended as this might leave the system in undesired state. Use the yum history option for small update rollbacks.

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