openSUSE 15.5/15.4/15.3/Tumbleweed Uninstall NVIDIA drivers and Enable Nouveau
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5. openSUSE 15.5/15.4/15.3/Tumbleweed 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(s) on openSUSE Linux ##
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="splash=silent mitigations=auto quiet rd.driver.blacklist=nouveau"
## OR ##
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="splash=silent systemd.show_status=yes mitigations=auto quiet lsm=apparmor rd.driver.blacklist=nouveau"
5.9 Update grub2 conf⌗
## BIOS / UEFI ##
grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/grub2/grub.cfg
5.10 Generate initramfs⌗
## Backup old initramfs nvidia image ##
mv /boot/initramfs-$(uname -r).img /boot/initramfs-$(uname -r)-nvidia.img
## Generate new initramfs image ##
mkinitrd /boot/initrd-$(uname -r) $(uname -r)
5.11 Reinstall xorg, mesa and libglvnd packages⌗
## openSUSE 15.5/15.4/15.3/Tumbleweed ##
zypper in -f $(rpm -qa |grep -i 'xorg-\|mesa-*\|libglvnd')
5.12 Reboot⌗
Run systemctl set-default graphical.target first or if you used direct grub parameter, then just:
reboot
5.13 NVIDIA Drivers Uninstall Complete and nouveau enabled⌗
