On 2024-06-28, Dale <rdalek1...@gmail.com> wrote: > Before I ran out of steam this morning, I tried the nouveau drivers > again. I never can remember how to spell that. :/ I unmerged the > nvidia drivers to do this. I used the in tree nouveau drivers tho. For > some reason, even tho I removed the nvidia package and rebooted, it > still showed it was loading the nvidia drivers which shouldn't even > exist. No matter what I did, it loaded the nvidia drivers. I could see > it with lsmod and lspci -k. It's like I can't get rid of the nvidia > drivers now.
There are two parts to the nvidia drivers: the kernel module (which is what you're seeing with lspci -k and lsmod) and the user-space Xorg driver (which is presumably what you unmerged). -- Grant
