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I'm planning on installing nVidia proprietary drivers on my Ubuntu 10.10.
Historically this always ends-up with me being left with no graphical interface. No ability to revert - and reinstalling the whole system.

So now, before trying this anew, I wish to backup all relevant config files.
I'll try 1 or 2 methods. I'll list each one's commands.
I'll appreciate if anyone can tell me how to backup the relevant file, or what's the reverse of this operation.
10x, David

Method I - as described here:

  1. apt-get --purge remove xserver-xorg-video-nouveau
  2. As described in this answer: edit /etc/default/grub and add the line GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="nouveau.modeset=0"
  3. sudo update-grub
  4. Reboot
  5. Install original drivers downloaded from nVidia site.

Method II - as described here:

  1. sudo apt-get purge nvidia*
  2. [possibly 'sudo gedit /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf' adding 'vga16fb' 'nouveau'
  3. sudo apt-get install nvidia-glx-185
  4. sudo modprobe nvidia
  5. sudo lsmod | grep -i nvidia
  6. sudo nvidia-xconfig

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For the first method, you'll need to backup /etc/default/grub, eg with

sudo cp /etc/default/grub /etc/default/grub.backup

If you edit the grub file, you'll need to run sudo update-grub. Nouveau can be reinstalled with sudo apt-get reinstall xserver-xorg-video-nouveau. Uninstall instruciton for nVidia's original driver should be included in the download, probably something similar to sudo make uninstall.

For the second method, you'll need to remove the edit from the blacklist file and run sudo apt-get purge nvidia-glx-185 to uninstall nVidia driver.

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