SystemSettings doesn't enable nouveau but says it does

[sem]

This is a system that has been upgraded to new versions of ubuntu many times. Recently I switched display drivers to nouveau from nvidia-331.

Upon rebooting, I'm stuck in 640x480. SystemSettings says I'm using nouveau, but actually, I'm using VESA. This is because there are some leftover files in modprobe.d/ that are blacklisting nouveau.

I think systemsettings should probably check if nouveau is in use before saying it is, and remove blacklists against nouveau when it is installing it!

grep nouveau /etc/modprobe.d/* --> http://paste.ubuntu.com/7448926/

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
Package: xorg 1:7.7+1ubuntu8
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.13.0-24.47-generic 3.13.9
Uname: Linux 3.13.0-24-generic x86_64
.tmp.unity.support.test.1:

ApportVersion: 2.14.1-0ubuntu3
Architecture: amd64
CompizPlugins: [core,bailer,detection,composite,opengl,decor,imgpng,grid,snap,gnomecompat,move,resize,compiztoolbox,unitymtgrabhandles,regex,mousepoll,vpswitch,wall,animation,expo,workarounds,fade,place,session,ezoom,scale,unityshell]
CompositorRunning: compiz
CompositorUnredirectDriverBlacklist: '(nouveau|Intel).*Mesa 8.0'
CompositorUnredirectFSW: true
CurrentDesktop: Unity
Date: Sun May 11 15:51:56 2014
DistUpgraded: 2014-04-20 21:00:38,849 DEBUG enabling apt cron job
DistroCodename: trusty
DistroVariant: ubuntu
DkmsStatus:
 bbswitch, 0.7, 3.11.0-12-generic, x86_64: installed
 bbswitch, 0.7, 3.13.0-24-generic, x86_64: installed
ExtraDebuggingInterest: Yes
GraphicsCard:
 NVIDIA Corporation GT215 [GeForce GT 240] [10de:0ca3] (rev a2) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
   Subsystem: XFX Pine Group Inc. Device [1682:3001]
Lsusb:
 Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
 Bus 002 Device 002: ID 045e:0040 Microsoft Corp. Wheel Mouse Optical
 Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/vmlinuz-3.13.0-24-generic root=UUID=99006791-f6dd-4126-ba56-919e97e1a791 ro quiet splash vt.handoff=7
Renderer: Software
SourcePackage: xorg
Symptom: display
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to trusty on 2014-04-21 (20 days ago)
dmi.bios.date: 07/09/2007
dmi.bios.vendor: Phoenix Technologies, LTD
dmi.bios.version: 6.00 PG
dmi.board.name: EPoX MCP61 Series
dmi.board.vendor: EPoX COMPUTER CO., LTD
dmi.board.version: 1.x
dmi.chassis.type: 3
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnPhoenixTechnologies,LTD:bvr6.00PG:bd07/09/2007:svn:pn:pvr:rvnEPoXCOMPUTERCO.,LTD:rnEPoXMCP61Series:rvr1.x:cvn:ct3:cvr:
version.compiz: compiz 1:0.9.11+14.04.20140423-0ubuntu1
version.ia32-libs: ia32-libs N/A
version.libdrm2: libdrm2 2.4.52-1
version.libgl1-mesa-dri: libgl1-mesa-dri 10.1.0-4ubuntu5
version.libgl1-mesa-dri-experimental: libgl1-mesa-dri-experimental N/A
version.libgl1-mesa-glx: libgl1-mesa-glx 10.1.0-4ubuntu5
version.xserver-xorg-core: xserver-xorg-core 2:1.15.1-0ubuntu2
version.xserver-xorg-input-evdev: xserver-xorg-input-evdev 1:2.8.2-1ubuntu2
version.xserver-xorg-video-ati: xserver-xorg-video-ati 1:7.3.0-1ubuntu3
version.xserver-xorg-video-intel: xserver-xorg-video-intel 2:2.99.910-0ubuntu1
version.xserver-xorg-video-nouveau: xserver-xorg-video-nouveau 1:1.0.10-1ubuntu2
xserver.bootTime: Sun May 11 15:04:16 2014
xserver.configfile: default
xserver.devices:
 input Power Button KEYBOARD, id 6
 input Power Button KEYBOARD, id 7
 input Microsoft Microsoft 3-Button Mouse with IntelliEye(TM) MOUSE, id 8
 input AT Translated Set 2 keyboard KEYBOARD, id 9
xserver.logfile: /var/log/Xorg.0.log
xserver.outputs:

xserver.version: 2:1.15.1-0ubuntu2

[Paul White (paulw2u)]

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