On Sat, Feb 23, 2013 at 10:30 PM, Joseph <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm trying to prevent next disaster with nvidia driver/kernel combination. > I'm running "nvidia" driver and installed "nouveau" as module. If for any > reason nvidia or nouveau will stop working I want to just run a sript and > use other one. > > Here is my configuration: > > cat /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf > blacklist nouveau > > cat /etc/X11/xorg.conf > Section "Device" > Identifier "Nvidia card" > Driver "nvidia" > EndSection > > eselect opengl list > Available OpenGL implementations: > [1] nvidia * > [2] xorg-x11 > > In order to switch it to "nouveau" I would need to unload the nvidia module, > but I can not do it when it is in use so I need to stop "xdm" first, am I > correct? > /etc/init.d/xdm stop (X crashes at this moment) > modprobe -r nvidia > mv /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf_backup > mv /etc/X11/xorg.conf /etc/X11/xorg.conf_nvidia > eselect opengl set xorg-x11 > modprobe nouveau > mv /etc/X11/xorg.conf_nouveau /etc/X11/xorg.conf > /etc/init.d/xdm start (at this moment I should have login screen) > > Did I miss anything? Will it work if I put it into a bash script?
What about console framebuffer (if you use one) and KMS? I wonder if you need to do something about those.
