Comment 131 for bug 728745

Okay, I understand the issue about the NVIDA drivers being propriety and
nothing can be done about them. But I fell for the understanding I
picked up somewhere that 11.10 had worked things out. In 11.04 I could
try the NVIDA drivers and then just select the Nouveau driver to get
back ground zero.

That didn't happen in 11.10. I don't have the option of selecting
Nouveau in the Advanced Driver area. And unfortunately 11.10 has moved
things all around and much of the instructions from 11.04 don't work.

Can someone provide step by step instructions on how to return to the
Nouveau drivers in 11.10? I promise I'll never trust an NVIDA driver
again. I'm comfortable using the terminal I just don't remember the
commands or know where to look for anything.

Thanks in advance for any help with this.

On Mon, 2011-10-17 at 08:54 +0000, John Cottier wrote:

> This was my experience with a fresh install of 11.10 release version on GeForce 7300 LE :-
> First login was fine, but graphical actions very sluggish (several seconds to move a window). I presume this was the nouveau driver since it was not 2D desktop.
>
> When prompted to install a driver for the video card, I selected the
> recommended one. After reboot this resulted in the usual garbled black
> and white boot splash and after login and a blank desktop. So I reboot
> and logged in with Ubuntu 2D, then selected the latest "Post release"
> driver. After reboot, the same garbled black and white boot splash, but
> the 3D desktop works. However the consoles (Ctrl+Alt+F1 etc) still do
> not work. You just get a blank screen, and returning via Ctrl+Alt+F7
> gives a totally corrupted screen.
>