Re: Procedure to uninstall nvidia drivers and restore nouveau

2013-11-17 Thread Hans
Am Sonntag, 17. November 2013, 16:57:30 schrieb Brad Rogers: > On Sun, 17 Nov 2013 15:47:40 + > Alex Naysmith wrote: > > Hello Alex, > > >#aptitude purge nvidia-kernel-dkms nvidia-glx > > > >The nvidia driver is still present and functioning. During the [failed] > >purge, I received the mess

Re: Procedure to uninstall nvidia drivers and restore nouveau

2013-11-17 Thread Brad Rogers
On Sun, 17 Nov 2013 15:47:40 + Alex Naysmith wrote: Hello Alex, >#aptitude purge nvidia-kernel-dkms nvidia-glx > >The nvidia driver is still present and functioning. During the [failed] >purge, I received the message 'No packages will be installed, upgraded, >or removed'. nvidia-glx is a tr

Re: Procedure to uninstall nvidia drivers and restore nouveau

2013-11-17 Thread Alex Naysmith
After purging the nvidia drivers with the following command: #aptitude purge nvidia-kernel-dkms nvidia-glx The nvidia driver is still present and functioning. During the [failed] purge, I received the message 'No packages will be installed, upgraded, or removed'. On 10 November 2013 21:44,

Re: Procedure to uninstall nvidia drivers and restore nouveau

2013-11-15 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Jo, 14 nov 13, 18:52:25, Kailash Kalyani wrote: > > I've used the sgfxi script and it supports removing non-free drivers > and installing free ones instead. > > http://smxi.org/site/about.htm#sgfxi > What is sgfxi (simple graphics installer - s gfx i) > > The primary purpose of sgfxi is to in

Re: Procedure to uninstall nvidia drivers and restore nouveau

2013-11-14 Thread Kailash Kalyani
On Monday 11 November 2013 11:11 PM, Curt wrote: On 2013-11-11, Chris Bannister wrote: Will the nouveau driver be "unblacklisted" after the purge? Ask yourself - "Would you, as system administrator, expect this?" then Oh, sorry, I thought you were answering the OP, a newbie who asked for

Re: Procedure to uninstall nvidia drivers and restore nouveau

2013-11-12 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Tue, 2013-11-12 at 21:17 +, Alex Naysmith wrote: > Thank you all for the sed regex explanation. What possible kernel > variations other than 'generic' are possible to require the sed > substitution? I guess there isn't a kernel named "generic" available by Debian repositories and the name e

Re: Procedure to uninstall nvidia drivers and restore nouveau

2013-11-12 Thread Alex Naysmith
Thank you all for the sed regex explanation. What possible kernel variations other than 'generic' are possible to require the sed substitution? After some googling, I've discovered that I'm actually compiling the nvidia driver and hence the business with the Linux header. On 12 November 2013 07:

Re: Procedure to uninstall nvidia drivers and restore nouveau

2013-11-12 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Tue, 2013-11-12 at 07:56 +, Alex Naysmith wrote: > linux-headers-$(uname -r|sed 's,[^-]*-[^-]*-,,') It does complete the name "linux-headers-". Run echo $(uname -r|sed 's,[^-]*-[^-]*-,,') or uname -r|sed 's,[^-]*-[^-]*-,,' to see what it does add. "uname -r" does show the kernel relea

Re: Procedure to uninstall nvidia drivers and restore nouveau

2013-11-12 Thread PaulNM
On 11/12/2013 02:56 AM, Alex Naysmith wrote: > From the nvidia install procedure is the following command: > > # aptitude -r install linux-headers-$(uname -r|sed 's,[^-]*-[^-]*-,,') > nvidia-kernel-legacy-173xx-dkms > > I can see the pipe | symbol and the regular expressions but I don't > really

Re: Procedure to uninstall nvidia drivers and restore nouveau

2013-11-11 Thread Alex Naysmith
>From the nvidia install procedure is the following command: # aptitude -r install linux-headers-$(uname -r|sed 's,[^-]*-[^-]*-,,') nvidia-kernel-legacy-173xx-dkms I can see the pipe | symbol and the regular expressions but I don't really understand what this command is doing. Alex On 10 Nove

Re: Procedure to uninstall nvidia drivers and restore nouveau

2013-11-11 Thread Curt
On 2013-11-11, Chris Bannister wrote: >> > >> Will the nouveau driver be "unblacklisted" after the purge? > > Ask yourself - "Would you, as system administrator, expect this?" then Oh, sorry, I thought you were answering the OP, a newbie who asked for the procedure (even a wiki) involved in going

Re: Procedure to uninstall nvidia drivers and restore nouveau

2013-11-11 Thread Erwan David
Le 11/11/2013 18:14, Chris Bannister a écrit : > On Mon, Nov 11, 2013 at 04:50:36PM +, Curt wrote: >> On 2013-11-11, Ralf Mardorf wrote: >>> I suspect that xorg.conf will not be removed, even not when using purge. >>> >> Will the nouveau driver be "unblacklisted" after the purge? > Ask yoursel

Re: Procedure to uninstall nvidia drivers and restore nouveau

2013-11-11 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Nov 11, 2013 at 04:50:36PM +, Curt wrote: > On 2013-11-11, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > > > I suspect that xorg.conf will not be removed, even not when using purge. > > > Will the nouveau driver be "unblacklisted" after the purge? Ask yourself - "Would you, as system administrator, expect

Re: Procedure to uninstall nvidia drivers and restore nouveau

2013-11-11 Thread Curt
On 2013-11-11, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > I suspect that xorg.conf will not be removed, even not when using purge. > Will the nouveau driver be "unblacklisted" after the purge? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listm

Re: Procedure to uninstall nvidia drivers and restore nouveau

2013-11-11 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Mon, 2013-11-11 at 16:20 +0100, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: > > Le 11.11.2013 16:18, Ralf Mardorf a écrit : > > On Mon, 2013-11-11 at 15:25 +0100, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org > > wrote: > >> > >> Le 10.11.2013 22:44, Alex Naysmith a écrit : > >> > After following the procedure at >

Re: Procedure to uninstall nvidia drivers and restore nouveau

2013-11-11 Thread berenger . morel
Le 11.11.2013 16:18, Ralf Mardorf a écrit : On Mon, 2013-11-11 at 15:25 +0100, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: Le 10.11.2013 22:44, Alex Naysmith a écrit : > After following the procedure at > https://wiki.debian.org/NvidiaGraphicsDrivers [1] to install the > nvidia-glx-legacy-173xx pack

Re: Procedure to uninstall nvidia drivers and restore nouveau

2013-11-11 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Mon, 2013-11-11 at 15:25 +0100, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: > > Le 10.11.2013 22:44, Alex Naysmith a écrit : > > After following the procedure at > > https://wiki.debian.org/NvidiaGraphicsDrivers [1] to install the > > nvidia-glx-legacy-173xx package for my GeForce FX5550 card [Debian

Re: Procedure to uninstall nvidia drivers and restore nouveau

2013-11-11 Thread berenger . morel
Le 10.11.2013 22:44, Alex Naysmith a écrit : After following the procedure at https://wiki.debian.org/NvidiaGraphicsDrivers [1] to install the nvidia-glx-legacy-173xx package for my GeForce FX5550 card [Debian 7 "Wheezy"], I would like to know the best method to return to the nouveau driver wit

Procedure to uninstall nvidia drivers and restore nouveau

2013-11-10 Thread Alex Naysmith
After following the procedure at https://wiki.debian.org/NvidiaGraphicsDrivers to install the nvidia-glx-legacy-173xx package for my GeForce FX5550 card [Debian 7 "Wheezy"], I would like to know the best method to return to the nouveau driver with the files from the glx-legacy-1733 package removed