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Restoring nouveau drivers after installing nvidia drivers
To restore nouveau drivers after installing nvidia proprietary drivers use:
- Edit '/etc/grub/grub.conf' file and change 'rdblacklist=nouveau' to 'rdblacklist=nvidia'
- Edit files in '/etc/modprobe' folder and remove blacklisting of nouveau and add blacklisting for nvidia
- Rename '/etc/X11/xorg.conf' file to '/etc/X11/xorg.conf.old' for backup purposes.
- Reboot the system and go into single mode.
- Change runlevel to 3 using 'init 3'
- Use 'xorg -configure' command to create 'xorg.conf.new" file in /root folder.
- Use 'mv /root/xorg.conf.new /etc/X11/xorg.conf'
- Use 'init 5' go get GUI access with nouveau drivers.