[Bug 1070698] Re: There is no way to revert to nouveau drivers via CLI after installing proprietary drivers

[Martin Pitt]

** Package changed: ubuntu-drivers-common (Ubuntu) => software-
properties (Ubuntu)

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Title:
  There is no way to revert to nouveau drivers via CLI after installing
  proprietary drivers

Status in “software-properties” package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged

Bug description:
  Description:	Ubuntu 12.10
  Release:	12.10

  ubuntu-drivers-common:
    Installed: 1:0.2.71
    Candidate: 1:0.2.71
    Version table:

  How to reproduce:

  1) Go to "Software Sources->Additional Drivers" and install a proprietary vide driver (i.e. NVidia)
  2) In my case, the NVidia driver fails to load, so i'm stuck on the CLI.
  3) Try to revert to nouveau driver via ubuntu-drivers is not possible, as there is no such feature.

  What I expected to happen:

  1) The ubuntu-drivers should list nouveau drivers along with the NVidia drivers
  2) There should be an option to install one of the available drivers, i.e nouveau in my case.

  What happen instead:

  I got stuck at CLI. I managed to uninstall nvidia-xxx and got back the
  nouveau drivers (sudo apt-get purge nvidia-xxx). However, I suspect
  that uninstalling nvidia-xxx is not enough as the boot screen is
  garbled and sometimes hangs at boot.

  This was possible in Jockey but is no longer possible after ubuntu-
  drivers-common replaced Jockey.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.10
  Package: ubuntu-drivers-common 1:0.2.71
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.5.0-17.28-generic 3.5.5
  Uname: Linux 3.5.0-17-generic x86_64
  ApportVersion: 2.6.1-0ubuntu3
  Architecture: amd64
  Date: Wed Oct 24 15:05:40 2012
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.10 "Quantal Quetzal" - Release amd64+mac (20121017.3)
  SourcePackage: ubuntu-drivers-common
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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