How does one remove the nvidia driver and install nouveau ?

[Linuxguy123]

On Wed, 2009-10-28 at 09:48 +0500, gilpel at altern.org wrote:
> > gilpel at altern.org on 10/26/2009 04:05 PM wrote:
> >>
> >> Section "Device"
> >>     Identifier     "Videocard0"
> >>     Driver         "nvidia"
> >> EndSection
> >>
> >>
> >> Maybe there's a problem?
> >>
> >
> > Here's your problem. Change "nvidia" to "nouveau" and restart X.
> 
> Normally,
> 
> --uninstall
> 
>     During installation, the installer will make backups of any
> conflicting files and record the installation of new files. The
> uninstall option undoes an install, restoring the system to its
> pre-install state.
> 
> file:///usr/share/doc/xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-185.18.36/html/chapter-04-section-04.html
> 
> So, if the driver is still "nvidia", it's most probably that process
> didn't complete, maybe didn't even begin.


It totally completed.  Removing the nvidia driver doesn't touch the
setting in the xorg.conf file.