How does one remove the nvidia driver and install nouveau ?

[Ralf Corsepius]

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>
yum install x
> Now what do I do ?
>
> I was running akmod,
I am using the rpmfusion packages.

> 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 ?
Sounds as if your installion is somehow broken. What actually is broken 
is hard to tell.

Normally you can have the xorg-x11-drv-nouveau package and rpmfusion's 
nvidia drivers installed in parallel and switch between both drivers.

May-be you need to run system-config-display?

Ralf