ATI seems to have anticipated this problem and instructs you to use the
force option ie "rpm -Uv --force fglrx..." when installing their rpm. I installed the package using YaST and was able to remove it by using YaST->Install and Remove Software then de-selecting it. Unfortunately I've been unable to get the driver to work in 9.1 so I can't offer more help than this.
Jeff
I was just illustrating 'rpm' behavior in my post -- when I did the install I *did* use '--force' as ATI instructed.
Thanks, Jeff - you helped me by telling me to use 'YaST -> Install and Remove Software'. That *did* list 'fglrx' as installed, and *did* let me run 'delete'. [Though it did *not* delete the results of the fglrx compilation I had run, nor the fglrx.ko file(s).]
The compilation process will create files that were never in the original rpm so they will be left behind after the rpm is removed.
Seems like my original question remains - though 'YaST -> Install and Remove Software' is able to see the fglrx package, 'rpm' (after I did the "rpm -Uv --force fglrx..." command again), __still__ replies to 'rpm -q fglrx' with: "package fglrx is not installed".
Can this confusing 'rpm' behavior be corrected ?
See Randall's post and try rpm -q fglrx_6_8_0 Jeff