How does one remove the nvidia driver and install nouveau ?

Ralf Corsepius rc040203 at freenet.de
Fri Oct 23 14:49:20 UTC 2009


On 10/23/2009 04:29 PM, Linuxguy123 wrote:
> 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>

I think, I misunderstood your remark.

Unlike the nvidia driver, the nouveau driver doesn't have a kernel module.

Ralf




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