How does one remove the nvidia driver and install nouveau ?

Linuxguy123 linuxguy123 at gmail.com
Fri Oct 23 14:29:07 UTC 2009


On Fri, 2009-10-23 at 16:14 +0200, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
> Run
> nvidia-config-display disable
> and reboot

It didn't work.

$ lsmod | grep vid
nvidia               9579020  40
video                  18744  0
uvcvideo               50572  0
videodev               29612  1 uvcvideo
i2c_core               25024  2 nvidia,i2c_i801
v4l1_compat            12048  2 uvcvideo,videodev
output                  2476  1 video

$ lsmod | grep nouveau
<nothing>

Now what do I do ?

I was running akmod, which presumably builds an nvidia kernel module.
Do those modules get loaded automatically ?  If so, how does one remove
an akmod build kernel module ?  Ie how does one do a 'make uninstall'
for an akmod module ?

Thanks




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