Correct way to remove nvidia drivers

[steve reilly]

Steve Flynn wrote:
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> My laptop suffered a terminal failure of the MXM Nvidia graphics card.
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> I've had to remove the card and now when I boot into normal mode the
> screen fritzes out as X tries to use the installed Nvidia drivers when
> there's no card in there.
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> I need to remove these drivers and reconfigure X to use the on-board
> graphics chip. This is my task for the 3.5 hours I'm on the train
> tomorrow afternoon (which means I won't have any access to the
> intertubes if I run into anything I'm unsure about.
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> Anyone got any advice on the cleanest way to reconfigure X from the CLI
> before I make a complete hash of it?
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either of these should get x back for you so you can get to synaptic or 
hardware drivers to remove nvidia

one, when booting choose recovery and pick the fix x server option.

or two, sudo nano /etc/X11/xorg.conf look for driver line and change 
nvidia to vesa, then reboot.


steve