blacklisting nouveau or apt-get purging

Bug #876294 reported by jb
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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This page is out of date..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*

Tags: wiki
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Jeremy Bícha (jbicha) wrote :

It isn't necessary to remove nouveau to use the Nvidia proprietary graphics drivers.

help.ubuntu.com/community is a wiki so feel free to update it to mention LightDM

John Kim (kotux)
tags: added: wiki
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Gunnar Hjalmarsson (gunnarhj) wrote :

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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