Need to change drivers

[scott]

On 03/12/2011 07:27 PM, scott wrote:
> 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>
Drivers are handled in the kernel. Read 'man modprobe' for a better 
explanation.