How to Disable Nouveau Nvidia Driver On Ubuntu 20.04

Nouveau - Accelerated Open Source driver for Nvidia cards In this tutorial, I will show you how to disable /blacklist Nouveau Nvidia dri...

Nouveau - Accelerated Open Source driver for Nvidia cards

In this tutorial, I will show you how to disable/blacklist Nouveau Nvidia driver on Ubuntu 20.04

For doing this you need to have up to date Ubuntu 20.04, sudo access or root access

Disable Nouveau Nvidia Driver On Ubuntu 20.04

Step 1: Blacklist Nvidia Nouveau driver

In the terminal execute the below commands to blacklist the nouveau driver

sudo bash -c "echo blacklist nouveau > /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist-nvidia-nouveau.conf"

sudo bash -c "echo options nouveau modeset=0 >> /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist-nvidia-nouveau.conf"

Step 2: Verify the entry from blacklist-nvidia-nouveau.conf

$ cat /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist-nvidia-nouveau.conf

blacklist nouveau

options nouveau modeset=0

Step 3: Reboot the system

$ sudo reboot