Control Display Driver on Bootup

Is there a way, using a bootup command or option, i.e. setting some env, that
can control whether I use nouveau or nvidia drivers. Some startup script would
need to

1. Copy or remove nouveau blacklist on /etc/modprob.d
2. Copy appropriate xorg.conf version to xorg.conf

Would be even better if this could be handled within the two files themselves.

I can do this easily enough with two reboot scripts.


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