I think I found out where the blacklist of the nouveau driver comes
from: On my system it was installed by the proprietary nvidia driver and
hasn't been uninstalled on the removal of this driver again when
switching to the open-source one.
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I see, but why does dpkg -S say it's from xserver-xorg-video-nouveau?
Also this should have been purged, but wasn't probably because of errors
when trying to do so:
$ LANG=C sudo dpkg -P linux-backports-modules-nouveau-2.6.32-12-generic
(Reading database ... 385281 files and directories
Ok - this blacklist file isn't present in the current version of the
nouveau package, or in the versions that shipped in
intrepid/jaunty/karmic. Did you install xserver-xorg-video-nouveau from
a PPA or anything, previously? The current package changelog doesn't
mention anything about this
Ok. That blacklist file comes from the xorg-edgers PPA linux-backports-
modules-nouveau package. We should document that better - or fix it in
the PPA packages, but it's not a bug in the Ubuntu packages.
** Changed in: xserver-xorg-video-nouveau (Ubuntu)
Status: Triaged = Invalid
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