Re: Procedure to uninstall nvidia drivers and restore nouveau

[Hans <hans.ullrich@loop.de>]

Am Sonntag, 17. November 2013, 16:57:30 schrieb Brad Rogers:
> On Sun, 17 Nov 2013 15:47:40 +0000
> Alex Naysmith <yeoman.python@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hello Alex,
> 
> >#aptitude purge nvidia-kernel-dkms nvidia-glx
> >
> >The nvidia driver is still present and functioning. During the [failed]
> >purge, I received the message 'No packages will be installed, upgraded,
> >or removed'.
> 
> nvidia-glx is a transitional package, which installed nvidia-driver.
> The nvidia-driver is a meta-package.  The removal of a meta-package does
> not necessarily remove the packages it depends on.  Therefore, you need
> to investigate which packages should also be removed.

Best way, to uninstall all nvidia stuff for me:

apt-get --purge remove nvidia-*

then 

apt-get autoremove 

and last (but not recommended)

orphaner

The last one deinstalls also all orphaned libs.

Have fun!

Hans