Re: Remove nvidia driver and reinstall nouveau
On Fri, 28 Jan 2011 08:42:30 +0100
Thierry Chatelet <tchatelet@free.fr> wrote:
> On Friday 28 January 2011 07:12:43 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)?
> >
> > 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.
>
> Purge whatever nvidia staff you installed and move away xorg.conf,
> it wont be needed any longer
> Thierry
>
>
Thanks for all the responses. I did
dpkg --get-selections | grep nvidia | xargs sudo aptitude purge --assume-yes
sudo rm /etc/X11/xorg.conf
then rebooted. All is well, so far. This has restored the pc-speaker beep
and improved the console font.
--
Joe Riel
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