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jessepinkman2802

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Registered: 2020-03-10

Posts: 22

How do I uninstall nouveau drivers and switch to intel gpu drivers?

I got a laptop with gtx 1070, i7 7700hq and gsync display. I haven't installed any of the Nvidia drivers and have also uninstalled nouveau drivers.

And yet when I enter the command

    lspci -nnk | grep -i vga -A3 | grep 'in use'

It gives me nouveau, I basically wanna change it to i915 drivers.

I tried even blacklisting nouveau module in the grub menu by adding the following to kernel boot line

    module_blacklist=nouveau nomodeset

It still didn't use intel drivers, when I entered

    lspci -nnk | grep -i vga -A3 | grep 'in use'

It gives me nothing. Later I read that for intel drivers, kernel modeseting should be enable for them to work, so I tried adding this to kernel boot line in the grub menu

    nouveau.modeset=0 i915.modeset=1

This didn't work and I booted into black screen.

Anyone got any idea basically on how to remove the nouveau drivers and just use the iGPU of my i7 processor. I don't want Nvidia drivers installed either. I just wanna completely remove the trace Nvidia gpu from my laptop.

Also, is there a chance that none of the above methods worked cause of my gsync display since I've read for for gsync displays, the dedicated gpu is directly connected to it. Is this related?

Any help?

sergekorol

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Registered: 2021-04-13

Posts: 18

Re: How do I uninstall nouveau drivers and switch to intel gpu drivers?

I have an nvidia and used these instructions. perhaps somthing like it would work for intel https://howto.lintel.in/install-nvidia-arch-linux/

here is the arch wiki on intel video cards. https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/intel_graphics

Last edited by sergekorol (2021-05-06 12:44:50)

seth

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Registered: 2012-09-03

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Re: How do I uninstall nouveau drivers and switch to intel gpu drivers?

"in use" there only means which kernel module is assigned to the HW - it doesn't mean you're actively using the chip.
You should™ however see the nvidia and the i915 chip.
=> Please post the entire "lspci -k" and your xorg log.

The intel chip might be deactivated in the BIOS/UEFI.

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