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Hardware - Support => Video Cards => Topic started by: galen on September 29, 2014, 07:26:29 PM
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Tried and can not get rid of nouveau.
I've battled nouveau for several years.
The GUI tool seems to properly install all nvidia304 & components.
But nouveau will simply not remove itself. Several reboots and checks. grub updates etc.
I've purged nouveau but it is still there! wow
LL2.0
nv49 video card
nvidia304
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Is your computer currently using the proprietary driver?
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well, no
nouveau will not remove itself
nvidia 304 is listed as installed
/usr/bin/software-properties-gtk --open-tab=4
lsmod |grep nouv
nouveau 969577 2
mxm_wmi 12893 1 nouveau
wmi 18673 2 mxm_wmi,nouveau
video 18903 1 nouveau
i2c_algo_bit 13197 1 nouveau
ttm 72725 1 nouveau
drm_kms_helper 48868 1 nouveau
drm 244037 4 ttm,drm_kms_helper,nouveau
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after some time and updates,
something got triggered to rebuild initrd
now nvidia is active