How to Remove NVIDIA Proprietary Display Driver.

[poorguy]

Greetings,

Had a Nvidia graphics card die and replaced it with a Ati Radeon graphics card and all is working good.

My question is how do I totally remove NVIDIA proprietary display driver and anything Nvidia related to the Nvidia graphics card.

Ubuntu Mate 16.04 is distro installed.

Thanks.

[Linuxisfast]

In terminal sudo apt --purge remove nvidia*

[poorguy]

Hey Linuxisfast,

Thanks that command appears to removed everything Nvidia related.

After running sudo apt autoremove I ran the command you posted again and nothing shows up.

Thanks for the help.

[poorguy]

What about the nouveau open source driver does that need to be removed or would that have been removed when I originally installed the Nvidia proprietary driver.

[Linuxisfast]

The nouveau is kernel level so can't be removed but blacklisted. sudo apt-get install nouveau-firmware sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg next time use additional driver method to use it via GUI, far easier and safer.

[poorguy]

Hey Linuxisfast,

Thanks.

[Linuxisfast]

Hey Linuxisfast,

Thanks.

You are welcome.