Re: Remove nvidia driver and reinstall nouveau
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 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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