Need to change drivers

[scott]

On 03/12/2011 04:45 PM, Jon Anderson wrote:
> This is the problem I run" lspci -v" which checks all drivers on my 
> system and more. It says kernel driver in use: nouveau
> then under that it says kernel modules: nvidia 
> recent,nvidia-96,nouveau,nvidiafb
> So what it looks like I have 3-4 drivers for my video card loaded and 
> one, nouveau, being used. I think they conflict with each other. I'm 
> trying to add drivers other then nouveau, because the mouse freezes 
> with nouveau. At this point I can't seem to get rid of nouveau, I go 
> to terminal and type"sudo apt-get --purge remove 
> xserver-xorg-video-nouveau" and it says that it's not loaded so I 
> can't dump it. "lspci-v" says nouveau is the driver being used and 
> trying to dump it it says it isn't installed. ?????????confused. I 
> want to dump nouveau, what should I do? I also go into Synaptic 
> package manager and it isn't listed as being installed. All help exepted!
>
sudo modprobe -r nouveau

sudo modprobe <new_driver>