On Thu, 2009-10-22 at 20:06 -0600, Linuxguy123 wrote:
> I need to test my computer with the nouveau driver in order to provide
> information for a bug report I contributed. Besides, I would like to
> see how well the open source driver works compared to the proprietary
> one.
>
> So how does one remove the nvidia driver and install the nouveau driver
> in its place ?
The nvidia driver still uses xorg.conf. Run 'livna-config-display
--active off' to prevent the starutp script from modifying xorg.conf.
Then edit xorg.conf and change the driver from 'nvidia' to 'nouveau'.
The reboot.
I think that'll do it.
>
> I recently started using akmod-nvidia. I suspect that its built and
> installed an nvidia kernel module. I did a yum remove kmod-nvidia and
> yum remove akmod-nvidia.
>
> I edited xorg.conf and changed nvidia to nouveau, but I did not change
> any of the module paths.
>
> I did a modprobe nouveau. lsmod shows that its there.
>
> I did an rmmod -w nvidia in an attempt to uninstall the module. But
> when I reboot, it still runs.
>
> Now what do I do ? Edit xorg.conf ? rmmod ? lsmod ? insmod ?
>
> Thanks
>
>
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Matthew Saltzman
Clemson University Math Sciences
mjs AT clemson DOT edu
http://www.math.clemson.edu/~mjs
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