Re: How to ditch nouveau driver with nVidia card

[Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com>]

Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com> writes:

> I'd like to go back to the old `nv' driver I used to use when running
> Gentoo, or some other driver that will work with my card and just
> ditch that nouveau driver.
> 
> Can anyone guide me a bit as to how to do that?

[...]

Before getting into some of the suggestions let me first make sure I'm
even running the nouveau driver.  Looking a little closer at aptitude
output, it could be indicating that I'm not actually running the xorg
driver but using nouveau in some other capacity:

Is this the normal way it would be installed?

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 aptitude search nouveau:

i   libdrm-nouveau1a - Userspace interface to nouveau-specific kernel 
    DRM services

i A libdrm-nouveau2 - Userspace interface to nouveau-specific kernel
    DRM services

p libdrm-nouveau2-dbg - Userspace interface to nouveau-specific kernel
  DRM -- debug

p xserver-xorg-video-nouveau - X.Org X server -- Nouveau display
  driver

p xserver-xorg-video-nouveau-dbg - X.Org X server -- Nouveau display
  driver (debug symbols)

-------        ---------       ---=---       ---------      -------- 
-------        ---------       ---=---       ---------      -------- 

And it looks like every xserver under the sun has been automatically
installed.  Can anyone guess why that would be:

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aptitude search xserver-xorg|grep ^i: 

i xserver-xorg - X.Org X server

i A xserver-xorg-core - Xorg X server - core server

i A xserver-xorg-input-all - X.Org X server -- input driver
    metapackage

i A xserver-xorg-input-evdev - X.Org X server -- evdev input driver

i A xserver-xorg-input-mouse - X.Org X server -- mouse input driver

i A xserver-xorg-input-synaptics - Synaptics TouchPad driver for X.Org
    server

i A xserver-xorg-input-vmmouse - X.Org X server -- VMMouse input
    driver to

i A xserver-xorg-input-wacom - X.Org X server -- Wacom input driver i
    A xserver-xorg-video-apm - X.Org X server -- APM display driver

i A xserver-xorg-video-ark - X.Org X server -- ark display driver

i A xserver-xorg-video-ati - X.Org X server -- AMD/ATI display driver

i A xserver-xorg-video-chips - X.Org X server -- Chips display driver

i A xserver-xorg-video-cirrus - X.Org X server -- Cirrus display
    driver

i A xserver-xorg-video-fbdev - X.Org X server -- fbdev display driver

i A xserver-xorg-video-geode - X.Org X server -- Geode GX2/LX display
    dri

i A xserver-xorg-video-i128 - X.Org X server -- i128 display driver

i A xserver-xorg-video-i740 - X.Org X server -- i740 display driver

i A xserver-xorg-video-intel - X.Org X server -- Intel i8xx, i9xx
    display i A xserver-xorg-video-mach64 - X.Org X server -- ATI
    Mach64 display drive

i A xserver-xorg-video-mga - X.Org X server -- MGA display driver

i A xserver-xorg-video-neomagic - X.Org X server -- Neomagic display
driver

i A xserver-xorg-video-openchrome - X.Org X server -- VIA display
    driver

i A xserver-xorg-video-r128 - X.Org X server -- ATI r128 display
    driver

i A xserver-xorg-video-radeon - X.Org X server -- AMD/ATI Radeon
    display d

i A xserver-xorg-video-rendition - X.Org X server -- Rendition display
    driver

i A xserver-xorg-video-s3 - X.Org X server -- legacy S3 display driver

i A xserver-xorg-video-s3virge - X.Org X server -- S3 ViRGE display
    driver

i A xserver-xorg-video-savage - X.Org X server -- Savage display
    driver

i A xserver-xorg-video-siliconmotio - X.Org X server -- SiliconMotion
    display dr

i A xserver-xorg-video-sis - X.Org X server -- SiS display driver

i A xserver-xorg-video-sisusb - X.Org X server -- SiS USB display
    driver

i A xserver-xorg-video-tdfx - X.Org X server -- tdfx display driver

i A xserver-xorg-video-trident - X.Org X server -- Trident display
    driver

i A xserver-xorg-video-tseng - X.Org X server -- Tseng display driver

i A xserver-xorg-video-vesa - X.Org X server -- VESA display driver

i A xserver-xorg-video-vmware - X.Org X server -- VMware display
    driver

i A xserver-xorg-video-voodoo - X.Org X server -- Voodoo display
    driver