How can I remove the drivers installed with the NVIDIA installer?

Question

I installed the GPU drivers for my NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 Ti graphics adapter using the installer file from NVIDIA, but I want to remove them and switch to the drivers being provided by the Ubuntu repositories. How can I completely remove the currently installed official (original) NVIDIA drivers?

Answer 1

Execute sudo nvidia-installer --uninstall, this command completely removes the NVIDIA drivers. Do not forget to remove configuration files, such like /etc/X11/xorg.conf and those ones which blacklist the nouveau drivers, usually located in the /etc/modprobe.d folder. Depending on your specific setup, other configurations may need to be reverted too. Reboot the system afterwards.

$ nvidia-installer --advanced-options
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  --uninstall
      Uninstall the currently installed NVIDIA driver.
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