help going back from nvidia blob to nouveau
 

Hello everyone,
I've been using the nvidia blob quite happily for some time, but I wanted to check how the nouveau is doing.
I don't remember why I switched to the blob in the first place, but I do remember the nouveau driver worked reasonably well back than.
However, going back seems harder... I removed the binary using the installer's --uninstall flag and removed the xorg.conf generated by the binary, than I upgradepkg'ed the xf86-video-nouveau (to replace the xf86-video-nouveau-blacklist) and also reinstalled the mesa package.
now X is working, and lsmod tells me that nouveau module is loaded, but I can't get stuff like plasma desktop effects, google earth and so on to work.
running glxinfo gives:
and glxgears says
is there anything I forgot to reinstall or something?
by the way, I'm on slackware-current, nvidia geforce 9500 gt.
thank you all, Niv.

Maybe try this

Make sure that you are not blacklisting the module. That is one of the things that you have to do in order to install the NVIDIA driver. Look in /etc/modprobe.d/ or in /lib/modprobe.d/

thanks tuxbg - that's was it :), everything is working now.

I'm glad i helped you