Table of Contents
1. Before NVIDIA drivers installation (CentOS Stream 9/8, Red Hat (RHEL) 9.0/8.5, Rocky Linux 8.5)
2. Install NVIDIA proprietary drivers on CentOS Stream 9/8, Red Hat (RHEL) 9.0/8.5, Rocky Linux 8.5 and disable the nouveau driver
3. Some Screenshots Using Different NVIDIA Cards and Drivers
4. Restore/Change/Update Plymouth After NVIDIA Drivers Installation (BIOS/UEFI Users)
5. CentOS Stream 9/8, Red Hat (RHEL) 9.0/8.5, Rocky Linux 8.5 Uninstall NVIDIA drivers and Enable Nouveau
5. CentOS Stream 9/8, Red Hat (RHEL) 9.0/8.5, Rocky Linux 8.5 Uninstall NVIDIA drivers and Enable Nouveau
I assume here that you have used this guide install part to install your NVIDIA drivers. This whole process is good to run on runlevel 3. When there is no X running. So first boot to runlevel 3 using direct parameter (3) on Grub linux/linuxefi line or using “systemctl set-default multi-user.target”.
5.1 Change root user
su -
## OR ##
sudo -i
5.2 Start NVIDIA Uninstall Process
nvidia-installer --uninstall
5.3 Restore xorg.conf
You can restore xorg.conf backup or remove /etc/X11/xorg.conf if you don’t have any special configuration.
5.4 NVIDIA Uninstall Warning
You might see following warning if you have updated some packages since nvidia drivers installation. Just select “OK”.
5.5 NVIDIA Installer Uninstalling
5.6 Fedora NVIDIA Uninstall Complete
5.7 Remove blacklist nouveau
Remove ‘blacklist nouveau’ line from /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf
5.8 Edit /etc/default/grub
Remove ‘rd.driver.blacklist=nouveau’ from end of ‘GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX=”…”‘
## Example row with Fedora 35/34/33 BTRFS ##
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="rhgb quiet"
## Or example row with LVM ##
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="rd.lvm.lv=fedora/swap rd.lvm.lv=fedora/root rhgb quiet"
5.9 Update grub2 conf
## BIOS ##
grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/grub2/grub.cfg
## UEFI CentOS Stream 9/8 ##
grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/efi/EFI/centos/grub.cfg
## UEFI Red Hat (RHEL) 9.0/8.5 ##
grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/efi/EFI/redhat/grub.cfg
## UEFI Rocky Linux 8.5 ##
grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/efi/EFI/rocky/grub.cfg
5.10 Generate initramfs
## Backup old initramfs nvidia image ##
mv /boot/initramfs-$(uname -r).img /boot/initramfs-$(uname -r)-nvidia.img
## Create new initramfs image ##
dracut /boot/initramfs-$(uname -r).img $(uname -r)
5.11 Reinstall xorg, mesa and libglvnd packages
## CentOS Stream, RHEL, Rocky Linux ##
dnf reinstall xorg-\* mesa\* libglvnd\*
5.12 Reboot
Run systemctl set-default graphical.target first or if you used direct grub parameter, then just:
reboot
5.14 NVIDIA Drivers Uninstall Complete and nouveau enabled
Table of Contents
1. Before NVIDIA drivers installation (CentOS Stream 9/8, Red Hat (RHEL) 9.0/8.5, Rocky Linux 8.5)
2. Install NVIDIA proprietary drivers on CentOS Stream 9/8, Red Hat (RHEL) 9.0/8.5, Rocky Linux 8.5 and disable the nouveau driver
3. Some Screenshots Using Different NVIDIA Cards and Drivers
4. Restore/Change/Update Plymouth After NVIDIA Drivers Installation (BIOS/UEFI Users)
5. CentOS Stream 9/8, Red Hat (RHEL) 9.0/8.5, Rocky Linux 8.5 Uninstall NVIDIA drivers and Enable Nouveau
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