How does one remove the nvidia driver and install nouveau ?

Linuxguy123 linuxguy123 at gmail.com
Fri Oct 23 18:00:11 UTC 2009


On Fri, 2009-10-23 at 11:35 -0500, Michael Cronenworth wrote:
> Linuxguy123 on 10/23/2009 11:33 AM wrote:
> > 
> > Section "Device"
> > 	Identifier  "Videocard0"
> > 	#Driver      "nvidia"
> > 	Driver	     "nouveau"
> > 	VendorName  "NVIDIA Corporation"
> > 	BoardName   "GeForce 8800M GTS"
> > 	Option	    "AddARGBGLXVisuals" "True"
> > EndSection
> > 
> > Section "Device"
> > 	Identifier  "Device0"
> > 	Driver      "nvidia"
> > 	VendorName  "NVIDIA Corporation"
> > 	BoardName   "GeForce 8800M GTS"
> > 	Option	    "AddARGBGLXVisuals" "True"
> > EndSection
> > 
> 
> 
> Look at it a few times and I think it will come to you.
> 
> Hint: Why do you have two device sections?

Changing both of the device section drivers to "nouveau" and disabling
all of the options made nouveau run.

I'll write this all up in a post when I get my dual monitor setup
working.





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