How to remove Intel's Open Source Technology Center Driver?

Solution 1:

All right. I have a history of answering my own questions, and here goes again:

Thanks to Saurav Kumar, I had another look at the second link I put in my question. Here's what you gotta do in Ubuntu 13.04:

Open the terminal and create a new file:

gksudo gedit /etc/apt/preferences.d/intel-removal

Copy+paste the following contents (MAKE SURE THAT THERE ARE NO TABS, SPACES OR INDENTS BEFORE ANY LINES, and replace raring with your own release):

Package: *
Pin: release a=raring*
Pin-Priority: 1001

Package: *
Pin: origin download.01.org
Pin-Priority: -100

Save the file and close gedit.

Run:

sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

In my case, this simply downgraded and removed some packages. I cannot guarantee what it will do on your system, because I'm a noob like that. So run at your own leisure, but don't blame me if things go wrong.

Now the cleaning up bit:

sudo rm /etc/apt/preferences.d/intel-removal
sudo rm /etc/apt/sources.list.d/intellinuxgraphics.list*
sudo apt-get update

Followed by removing the actual drivers (i915-3.9-3.8-dkms WILL be different depending on your version of Ubuntu):

sudo apt-get purge i915-3.9-3.8-dkms intel-linux-graphics-installer
sudo apt-get autoremove

Reboot, et voilà, we're done. Thanks to the author of the below blog post and Saurav Kumar.

Reference: http://theclonker.de/?p=89