As expected, Nvidia drivers have reduced my customizations. I can't login to Unity 3D session. I can't find any content to help me to uninstall the driver and I don't know what to do as I have never uninstalled them before.
For Ubuntu 12.04
Commands can be executed to terminal. You can open a terminal with Ctrl + Alt+T keys combo.
If you remove --purge the nvidia driver you will be OK. No need to blacklist something, but sometimes maybe a force-load of the nouveau module needed.
First uninstall completely the driver.
Search what packages from nvidia you have installed.
dpkg -l | grep -i nvidia
except the package nvidia-common all other packages should be purged.
If you want to be sure that you will purge everything related to nvidia you can give this command
sudo apt-get remove --purge '^nvidia-.*'
the .* in the end means (Purge everything that begins (^) with the name nvidia-)
BUT
above command will also remove the nvidia-common package and the nvidia-common package has as a dependency the ubuntu-desktop package.
So after above command you should also give the installation command for ubuntu-desktop package
sudo apt-get install ubuntu-desktop
Also sometimes the nouveau driver get blacklisted from nvidia driver. With purge command it should UN-blacklisted. If you want to be sure that nouveau will be load in boot, you can force-load it by add it to /etc/modules
echo 'nouveau' | sudo tee -a /etc/modules
Last , search for the xorg.conf file and remove it as well
sudo rm /etc/X11/xorg.conf
In summary
sudo apt-get remove --purge '^nvidia-.*'
sudo apt-get install ubuntu-desktop
sudo rm /etc/X11/xorg.conf
echo 'nouveau' | sudo tee -a /etc/modules
Although all above commands not needed, this is my way to completely purge the nvidia driver and use the open source nounveau.
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