Re: Procedure to uninstall nvidia drivers and restore nouveau

[Ralf Mardorf <ralf.mardorf@alice-dsl.net>]

On Mon, 2013-11-11 at 15:25 +0100, berenger.morel@neutralite.org wrote:
> 
> Le 10.11.2013 22:44, Alex Naysmith a écrit :
> > After following the procedure at
> > https://wiki.debian.org/NvidiaGraphicsDrivers [1] 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
> >
> >
> > Links:
> > ------
> > [1] https://wiki.debian.org/NvidiaGraphicsDrivers
> 
> If you installed NVidia through the Debian's package in non-free 
> sections, then simply remove it, with
                ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ I guess this is incorrect ...
> #aptitude purge nvidia-kernel-dkms nvidia-glx
           ^^^^^^ ... but the command is correct ;), but I'm not sure
how Debian handles /etc/X11/xorg... 
> You will then need to install nouveau drivers, and you can do that 
> with:
> #aptitude install xserver-xorg-videa-nouveau
> 
>