On Fri, 28 Jan 2011 08:42:30 +0100
Thierry Chatelet <tchate...@free.fr> wrote:

> On Friday 28 January 2011 07:12:43 Joe Riel wrote:
> > Is there a nice way to remove the nvidia driver and replace
> > it with the nouveau driver (which was originally installed
> > with Debian squeeze)?
> > 
> > I tried modifying xorg.conf and
> > removing /etc/modprobe.d/nvidia-kernel-common.conf; that
> > partially worked, however, glx didn't work because of the
> > different kernel installed when nvidia was installed.
> 
> Purge whatever  nvidia staff you installed and move away xorg.conf,
> it wont be needed any longer
> Thierry
> 
> 

Thanks for all the responses.  I did

dpkg --get-selections | grep nvidia | xargs sudo aptitude purge --assume-yes
sudo rm /etc/X11/xorg.conf

then rebooted.  All is well, so far.  This has restored the pc-speaker beep
and improved the console font.

-- 
Joe Riel


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