Hi jb! Please note that the page in question is a wiki page which anybody can
edit - including you. ;-)
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/WikiGuide
Since you seem to know how it should be changed, it would be great if you could
fix it.
Due to the nature of the community help wiki, you can't request changes
to it in the form of bug reports.
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Status: New => Invalid
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/876294
Title:
blacklisting nouveau or apt-get purging
Status in “ubuntu-docs” package in Ubuntu:
Invalid
Bug description:
Ubuntu 11.10
(a)https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BinaryDriverHowto/Nvidia
(b)https://help.ubuntu.com/community/NvidiaManual
(a)
I'm thinking it probably should be
"Nouveau, an open source driver, is installed by default. To prevent
conflicts with the nvidia driver, you should remove xserver-xorg-video-nouveau
package(which contains the nouveau module), or you should at the very least
blacklist it"
sudo apt-get --purge remove xserver-xorg-video-nouveau
or
echo -e \\nblacklist nouveau\\n >> /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf
"
Original:
"
Removing Nouveau (advanced/expert users)
Nouveau, an open source driver, is installed by default. It's possible
to remove it completely, but it is not necessary and therefor not
recommended.
If you still desire to remove it, you can do so by entering the
following command in a terminal:
sudo apt-get --purge remove xserver-xorg-video-nouveau
"
(b)
This page is out of date.. gdm is not the starter for X, but lightdm+(the
other stuff it calls)
I was able to confirm I had to blacklist it at least with Nvidia*run
There's also missing info about uninstalling any *nvidia* and nouveau
packages not needed before running Nvidia*run
dpkg -l|grep -i nouveau
dpkg -l|grep -i nvidia
and apt-get remove -common* -current* and the others as necessary
..and some other commands related to updating this page for 11.10 (relating
to lightdm and running Nvidia)
stop lightdm
start lightdm
chmod +x Nvidia*
then running ./Nvidia*
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