Re: Procedure to uninstall nvidia drivers and restore nouveau

[Alex Naysmith <yeoman.python@gmail.com>]

Thank you all for the sed regex explanation. What possible kernel variations other than 'generic' are possible to require the sed substitution?

After some googling, I've discovered that I'm actually compiling the nvidia driver and hence the business with the Linux header.

On 12 November 2013 07:56, Alex Naysmith <yeoman.python@gmail.com> wrote:

From the nvidia install procedure is the following command:

# aptitude -r install linux-headers-$(uname -r|sed 's,[^-]*-[^-]*-,,') nvidia-kernel-legacy-173xx-dkms

I can see the pipe | symbol and the regular expressions but I don't really understand what this command is doing.

Alex

On 10 November 2013 21:44, Alex Naysmith <yeoman.python@gmail.com> wrote:

After following the procedure at https://wiki.debian.org/NvidiaGraphicsDrivers to install the nvidia-glx-legacy-173xx package for my GeForce FX5550 card [Debian 7 "Wheezy"], I would like to know the best method to return to the nouveau driver with the files from the glx-legacy-1733 package removed including the /etc/X11/xorg.d directory. I think users would benefit from an 'uninstall nvidia driver' wiki page.

Regards