Comment 6 for bug 1062846

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Carla Sella (carla-sella) wrote : Re: Cannot uninstall Nvidia-173 driver

I reinstalled the Nvidia-173 driver.
After that I removed it and rebooted.
When my PC restarted I got a message that my PC could start only in low graphics mode, and had only a terminal to logon, no desktop session.
I logged on and the output of lsmod is in the attached file lsmod3.txt where as you can see there are no graphics drivers (no nouveau a no Nvidia ones).
I ran a dpkg --list *nvidia* to find Nvidia drivers installed and as you can see in the attached nvidia.txt file, the Nvidia-173 drivers where still installed.
I had to remove them with dpkg -r and after reboot I found myself with the nouveau drivers installed.

This has happened to me quite often testing 12.10 kernel on 12.04.