In this post, I will show you how to uninstall NVIDIA Driver and reinstall the Nouveau driver on Debian Linux.
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➡️ Introduction:
NVIDIA Driver on Linux is properly the most difficult driver to install on a Linux system for everyday users. Users may experience a blank screen after installing NVIDIA Driver. To access the current system through the GUI interface, the user would need to remove the Nvidia driver.
➡️ Step 1: Exit the blank screen and access tty console login screen
To access tty console, press Ctrl + Atl + F1
➡️ Step 2: Stop lightdm service
┌─[sysadmin102@parrot]─[~]
└──╼ $ sudo service lightdm stop➡️ Step 3: Remove the nouveau blacklist.conf
Change the directory to /etc/modprobe.d/
┌─[sysadmin102@parrot]─[~]
└──╼ $ cd /etc/modprobe.d/
┌─[sysadmin102@parrot]─[/etc/modprobe.d]
└──╼ $ ls
amd64-microcode-blacklist.conf intel-microcode-blacklist.conf
blacklist-libnfc.conf libhackrf0.conf
blacklist-nouveau.conf mdadm.conf
broadcom-sta-dkms.conf r8168-dkms.conf
dkms.conf r8188eus-dkms.conf
┌─[sysadmin102@parrot]─[/etc/modprobe.d]
└──╼ $ sudo rm blacklist-nouveau.conf
➡️ Step 3: Uninstall Nvidia Driver
To uninstall Nvidia Driver, run the below command:
┌─[sysadmin102@parrot]─[/etc/modprobe.d]
└──╼ $ sudo nvidia-uninstall
Select Yes to run nvidia-xconfig –restore-original-backup to restore the original x configuration file.
Remove all nvidia file or artifacts using the purge command:
┌─[sysadmin102@parrot]─[/etc/modprobe.d]
└──╼ $ sudo apt purge nvidia*
┌─[sysadmin102@parrot]─[/etc/modprobe.d]
└──╼ $ sudo apt autoremove➡️ Step 3: Reinstall Xserver and Nouveau Driver
Run the below command to restore Xserver and Nouveau driver:
┌─[sysadmin102@parrot]─[/etc/modprobe.d]
└──╼ $ sudo apt install --reinstall xserver-xorg
┌─[sysadmin102@parrot]─[/etc/modprobe.d]
└──╼ $ sudo apt install --reinstall xserver-xorg-video-nouveau
➡️ Step 4: Regenerate the kernel initramfs
┌─[sysadmin102@parrot]─[/etc/modprobe.d]
└──╼ $ sudo update-initramfs -u
┌─[sysadmin102@parrot]─[/etc/modprobe.d]
└──╼ $ reboot
To verify that Nouveau driver is being used, you can run the list command
┌─[sysadmin102@parrot]─[~/Downloads]
└──╼ $ lspci | grep -i NVIDIA
41:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GP102 [GeForce GTX 1080 Ti] (rev a1)
41:00.1 Audio device: NVIDIA Corporation GP102 HDMI Audio Controller (rev a1)
┌─[sysadmin102@parrot]─[~/Downloads]
└──╼ $ lspci -s 41:00.0 -v
41:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GP102 [GeForce GTX 1080 Ti] (rev a1) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
Subsystem: Micro-Star International Co., Ltd. [MSI] GP102 [GeForce GTX 1080 Ti]
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 94, NUMA node 1
Memory at 9d000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M]
Memory at 80000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=256M]
Memory at 90000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=32M]
I/O ports at 2000 [size=128]
Expansion ROM at 000c0000 [virtual] [disabled] [size=128K]
Capabilities: <access denied>
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