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disable_nvidia_nouveau [13.06.2017 17:50] – [what to do when the unity launcher and window decorations are missing] Pascal Suterdisable_nvidia_nouveau [30.09.2017 07:11] (current) – [Disabling the NVIDIA Nouveau driver in Ubuntu] Pascal Suter
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 after that, you need to recreate the grub config by running  after that, you need to recreate the grub config by running 
   update-grub    update-grub 
-and reboot once more. check again and if you still see nouveau modules, start googling ;) so far these steps have always worked on all ubuntu systems i had touched since 10.04+and reboot once more. check again and if you still see nouveau modules, start googling ;)  
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 +another problem i have recently encountered with ubuntu 17.04 on a computer booting ubuntu-gnome via uefi was, that after showing the grub menu the screen remained gray (would be purple with ubuntu i guess) and nothing worked, no ctrl+alt+key hotkeys or anything. i added this to the linux cmdline via grub to finally get my computer to boot again:  
 +  i915.modeset=0 
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 +so far these steps have always worked on all ubuntu systems i had touched since 10.04
  
 ===== use a repository for a packaged driver ===== ===== use a repository for a packaged driver =====
  • disable_nvidia_nouveau.txt
  • Last modified: 30.09.2017 07:11
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