Nouveau 12.04

[morkovka078]

Hello,

I can t get rid of the nouveau kernel driver in 12.04, any help please ?!

doing
apt-get --purge remove xserver-xorg-video-nouveau didn t do the trick as on Lucid..

thanks for any help, regards

[NikTh]

Hi ,
if you get rid of nouveau driver then who will control your graphics ?
I think you mean to blacklist it , then you must install the nvidia's proprietary driver .

sudo apt-get install nvidia-current
This driver will automatically blacklist nouveau.
After installation you must reboot for driver take place.
Thanks

[morkovka078]

Hello Nikth,

Thanks for your answer. unfortunately this doesnt work either, and installing nvidia manually puts it on the blacklist it you want to, which didn t work either, but in any case it shouldn t have detected it as after the --purge command, if i do it again it says it s not installed, so i m completly puzzled here..

[NikTh]

Hi ,
wait a minute cause i am little confused now. Can you or you can't install nvidia's proprietary driver ?
Try to install nvidia's driver with official way.
jockey-gtk command will open the additional drivers window. Install it(activate) from there and reboot.
Then open a terminal and give the output of command
lscpi -nnk|grep -iA2 vgaThanks

[VanR]

apt-get remove --purge xserver-xorg-video-nouveau libdrm-nouveau1a
Always works for me