Video driver limbo

17 August 2024, 04:38:11

Months ago I bought a used AMD card to replace my nvidia one. Weeks ago that card blew, so I bought a this time new AMD card which hasn't yet arrived. I provisionally reinstalled the old nvidia card but since the last working boot was with AMD all I get is an HDMI symbol on the monitor.

I can access the system from another one or from one of several Live/Rescue DVD's, how can I edit and what so that the nouveau driver will be used (for whatever card is in at the time)?

TIA

Re: Video driver limbo

Reply #1 – 17 August 2024, 07:01:21

Chroot, blacklist the amdgpu kernel module, check if nouveau is blacklisted and if not, reboot. You're pretty much done. You can also follow this for proprietary nvidia drivers https://github.com/korvahannu/arch-nvidia-drivers-installation-guide