Need to change drivers

[NoOp]

On 03/12/2011 01:45 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!
> 

It will be more helpful if you tell us what version of Ubuntu and what
video card you are using.

System|Administration|Additional Drivers
Turn on the nvidia-96 driver & leave the kernel modules alone unless you
know what you are doing.

01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV25GL [Quadro4
900 XGL] (rev a3) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
	Subsystem: nVidia Corporation Device 0138
	Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 248, IRQ 16
	Memory at fd000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M]
	Memory at e8000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=128M]
	Memory at f4780000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=512K]
	[virtual] Expansion ROM at fe9e0000 [disabled] [size=128K]
	Capabilities: <access denied>
	Kernel driver in use: nvidia
	Kernel modules: nvidia-96, nouveau, nvidiafb, rivafb