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I would like to disable the Nvidia driver at boot time in Grub, on specific grub entries.

I noticed that adding module.blacklist=nvidia was the way to go. (source)

I rebooted my system, edited the GRUB command line with e, and at the end of the linux, I appended:

... module.blacklist=nvidia

However, the nvidia driver is still loaded:

$ lsmod | grep nvidia
nvidia_uvm           1007616  0
nvidia_drm             49152  10
nvidia_modeset       1183744  14 nvidia_drm
nvidia              19722240  616 nvidia_uvm,nvidia_modeset
drm_kms_helper        184320  2 nvidia_drm,i915
drm                   491520  14 drm_kms_helper,nvidia_drm,i915
i2c_nvidia_gpu         16384  0

➡️ Am I using the wrong syntax ?

➡️ Is there something I am missing during the boot ?

In the meantime, I'm switching the driver using the additional driver tool before I reboot:

additional_driver_picture

Running Ubuntu 20.04

Kevin Bowen
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  • If you disable nvidia module, the system won't boot. The nouveau driver is blacklisted when you install proprietary drivers. It is a bad idea. – Pilot6 Dec 08 '20 at 12:08
  • But how do i install them both, and blacklist one when I need the other ? And why my system was able to boot, even though I blacklisted the only GPU driver ? – Wenzel Dec 08 '20 at 12:12
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    It is a complex task and can't be done quite easily. You could boot probably because some dependent modules still pulled nvidia. – Pilot6 Dec 08 '20 at 12:19
  • You can turn off nvidia for next boot with sudo prime-select intel then turn it on again for following boot with sudo prime-select nvidia. – WinEunuuchs2Unix Dec 08 '20 at 12:27

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The correct syntax is

module_blacklist=nvidia .

Note the underscore instead of the dot.

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