[XORG] Uprgading Nvidia card

[rdonnelly]

Hi all whats the best way to uninstall the drivers for my old nVIDIA GEFORCE GT 610. Back in the day, I would just run RM xorg.conf, boot up and install the new driver. Will that work? Just trying to prevent hosing my system. Or will just doing a kernel update with no DKMS do the trick?

Thanks

[jglen490]

There is probably more than one way.

If you are going from Nvidia to Nvidia, you might go into the Driver Manager, apply the Nouveau driver, then shutdown remove the old card and install the new. Boot up again and go into Driver Manager again and apply whatever it recommends.

[rdonnelly]

There is probably more than one way.

If you are going from Nvidia to Nvidia, you might go into the Driver Manager, apply the Nouveau driver, then shutdown remove the old card and install the new. Boot up again and go into Driver Manager again and apply whatever it recommends.

I ended up manually installing my driver, so all options are greyed out in the driver manager.

[jglen490]

Then manually remove your current driver. I would still recommend having a driver when you reboot. I would still recommend letting Driver Manager - or ubuntu-drivers on CLI - recommend and install an appropriate driver. As has been noted elsewhere, even Nvidia recommends that for Linux. Once you have a recommended driver, you can play with other versions and still have a fallback.

[rdonnelly]

Then manually remove your current driver. I would still recommend having a driver when you reboot. I would still recommend letting Driver Manager - or ubuntu-drivers on CLI - recommend and install an appropriate driver. As has been noted elsewhere, even Nvidia recommends that for Linux. Once you have a recommended driver, you can play with other versions and still have a fallback.

So what would be the best way to uninstall the old driver?

[jglen490]

The same way you installed it.

However, if it was me, I would look in Synaptic or Muon, and uninstall it there. If I couldn't find it there, then I would go to the command line and uninstall it with apt or aptitude.

[claydoh]

So what would be the best way to uninstall the old driver?

That will depend on how you installed it 'manually': via either your package manager or apt (recommended when not using the driver manager) , or via the .run file downloaded from Nvidia (which Nvidia does not recommend)
As you have greyed-out options in the Driver Manager, I will assume the latter, as it cannot manage things that were not installed as deb files.

Probably sudo ./NVIDIA-xxxxxxx.run --uninstall

[rdonnelly]

Thanks guys, I found another good write up as well.

https://easylinuxtipsproject.blogspo...vidia.html?m=1

[rdonnelly]

I also found the installation in Synaptic, so I will uninstall from there when I get the new card.

[rdonnelly]

I was totally unable to uninstall the old drivers, so I did a wipe and a fresh new install. It took me less time to do that, than all of the attempts of trashing my system, and restoring cloned partitions. So far so good with the new card and power management.