Re: Remove nvidia driver and reinstall nouveau
On Fri, 28 Jan 2011 08:32:02 +0100
Sven Joachim <svenjoac@gmx.de> wrote:
> On 2011-01-28 07:12 +0100, Joe Riel wrote:
>
> > Is there a nice way to remove the nvidia driver and replace
> > it with the nouveau driver (which was originally installed
> > with Debian squeeze)?
>
> If you have used the Debian packages in non-free, definitely. If you
> have run NVidia's installer, I'm not so sure. Which method did you
> choose?
I used the Debian packages from non-free. Presumably I'll need to
purge those. But do I also have to reconfigure/reinstall the
nouveau driver package? Since the nvidia package installs a different
kernel, do I have to manually (via aptitude) install a new one, or will
aptitude know to do that?
> > I tried modifying xorg.conf and
> > removing /etc/modprobe.d/nvidia-kernel-common.conf; that
> > partially worked, however, glx didn't work because of the
> > different kernel installed when nvidia was installed.
>
> GLX not working has nothing to do with the kernel, it's because the
> nvidia driver installs its own incompatible implementation.
>
> Sven
>
>
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Joe Riel
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