Debian / Ubuntu / Linux Mint / LMDE NVIDIA Drivers Uninstall Guide

  1. Debian / Ubuntu / Linux Mint / LMDE 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.
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Debian / Ubuntu / Linux Mint / LMDE NVIDIA Restore / Change / Update Plymouth (BIOS/UEFI Users)

  1. Restore/Change/Update Plymouth After NVIDIA Drivers Installation (BIOS/UEFI Users) Please let me know if it works or if you have some problems. 4.1 Create /etc/modprobe.d/nvidia.conf file Create /etc/modprobe.d/nvidia.conf with content “options nvidia_drm modeset=1” echo "options nvidia_drm modeset=1" >> /etc/modprobe.d/nvidia.conf 4.2 Create /etc/dracut.conf.d/nvidia.conf file Create /etc/dracut.conf.d/nvidia.conf file with following content, note you need white spaces inside add_drivers and install_items: cat << EOF > /etc/dracut.conf.d/nvidia.conf add_drivers+=" nvidia nvidia_modeset nvidia_uvm nvidia_drm " install_items+=" /etc/modprobe.
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Install NVIDIA [560.28.03 / 555.58.02 / 550.100 / 535.183.01 / 470.256.02 / 390.157 / 340.108] Drivers on Debian / Ubuntu / Linux Mint / LMDE

This is guide, howto install NVIDIA proprietary drivers (manually using .run files) on Debian Sid / 12 / 11 / 10, Ubuntu 24.04 / 23.10 / 22.04, Linux Mint 21.3 / 21.2 / 21.1 / 21 / 20.3 / 20.2 / 20.1, LMDE 4 and disable Nouveau driver. This guide works with GeForce 8/9/200/300/400/500/600/700/800/900/10/20/30/40 series cards. This is alternative way to install NVIDIA drivers, because Debian based Linux distros have NVIDIA drivers directly from repos too.
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NVIDIA 560.28.03 / 555.58.02 / 550.100 / 535.183.01 / 470.256.02 + Xwayland on Debian / Ubuntu 24.04 / 22.04 and Gnome 46/45/44, Linux Mint 21.3 Cinnamon 6.0.1

  1. Enable Xwayland with NVIDIA 560.28.03 / 555.58.02 / 550.100 / 535.183.01 / 470.256.02 proprietary drivers on Debian / Ubuntu / Linux Mint This is guide, howto enable NVIDIA accelerated 3D rendering and Xwayland on Ubuntu 22.04 with NVIDIA 560.xx (560.28.03) / 555.xx (555.58.02) / 550.xx (550.100) / 535.xx (535.154.05) / 470.xx (470.223.02) proprietary drivers on GNOME 46/45/44. Tested with latest NVIDIA drivers, I assume here that you have installed NVIDIA drivers using this guide.
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