multiple nvidia errors but my display adapter is not nvidia

Question

18.04 4.15.0-23 My log has many entries snipped to below. Where is the modprobe for nvidia coming from and how do I turn it off? Or is there some other issue?

systemd-udevd[1983]: Process '/sbin/modprobe nvidia-modeset' failed with exit code 1.
kernel: nvidia-nvlink: Nvlink Core is being initialized, major device number 239
kernel: NVRM: No NVIDIA graphics adapter found!
kernel: nvidia-nvlink: Unregistered the Nvlink Core, major device number 239

My video is intel :

   lshw -class display
   description: VGA compatible controller
   product: 2nd Generation Core Processor Family Integrated Graphics Controller
   vendor: Intel Corporation

using intel driver

configuration: driver=i915 latency=0


lsmod | grep nvidia
nvidia              14352384  1
ipmi_msghandler        53248  2 nvidia,ipmi_devintf

Answer 1

Log no longer includes the messages. I followed Fred's procedure outlined here

How can I uninstall a nvidia driver completely ?

I am using MATE so instead of re-installing the Ubuntu desktop I re-installed mate-desktop.