Hi,
On one of my workstations I have a dual monitor setup with an NVidia GT 710 card and the proprietary nvidia 470.xx driver from ELRepo.
How do I uninstall that driver and revert to the free nouveau driver ? I have a vague recollection this involves reinstalling some X11-related packages.
Cheers,
Niki
AFAIK, the install of ELRepo packages does not remove any base system packages.
One can naturally check from dnf history what was installed/removed in the transaction.
I have used crude dnf rm \*nvidia\* ; reboot but haven’t (a) cared if some base system package matches that spec, and (b) usually followed by installing some NVidia driver.
You should also check that the nouveau driver isn’t still blacklisted, either in the grub config or in a file in /etc/modprobe.d/
Thanks for your input everybody. I tried to simply uninstall all nvidia-related packages, and it worked. Well, sort of. The experience with the nouveau driver under Rocky Linux 8 was underwhelming, to say the least. KDE’s background disappeared at random intervals, and other nasty surprises. So I simply reinstated the proprietary driver which seems to be somewhat of a lesser evil.