diff --git a/src/spatial-solving/solverfactory.cc b/src/spatial-solving/solverfactory.cc
index 88d4d0c019719b1b5d101a6565da9c32da7e589c..06022fd96778af3ab4d5b4112d01c5b81d670439 100644
--- a/src/spatial-solving/solverfactory.cc
+++ b/src/spatial-solving/solverfactory.cc
@@ -21,13 +21,13 @@ SolverFactory<dim, BlockProblem, DeformedGrid>::SolverFactory(
                        parset.get<double>("linear.tolerance"), &baseEnergyNorm,
                        Solver::QUIET),
       transferOperators(grid.maxLevel()),
-      multigridStep(
-          std::make_shared<Step>(linearIterationStep, nonlinearSmoother)) {
+      multigridStep(std::make_shared<Step>(linearIterationStep, nonlinearSmoother)) {
+
   // linear iteration step
   linearIterationStep.setMGType(parset.get<int>("linear.cycle"),
                                 parset.get<int>("linear.pre"),
                                 parset.get<int>("linear.post"));
-  linearIterationStep.basesolver_ = &linearBaseSolver;
+  //linearIterationStep.basesolver_ = &linearBaseSolver;
   linearIterationStep.setSmoother(&linearPresmoother, &linearPostsmoother);
 
   // transfer operators
@@ -38,9 +38,9 @@ SolverFactory<dim, BlockProblem, DeformedGrid>::SolverFactory(
   linearIterationStep.setTransferOperators(transferOperators);
 
   // tnnmg iteration step
-  multigridStep->setSmoothingSteps(parset.get<int>("main.pre"),
+  /*multigridStep->setSmoothingSteps(parset.get<int>("main.pre"),
                                    parset.get<int>("main.multi"),
-                                   parset.get<int>("main.post"));
+                                   parset.get<int>("main.post")); */
   multigridStep->ignoreNodes_ = &ignoreNodes;
 }
 
diff --git a/src/spatial-solving/solverfactory.hh b/src/spatial-solving/solverfactory.hh
index 46df246cede27bbbcf1e74aee4769c2979036af5..c14ba311ec4de2ea51414028b734f1de2e88d8ac 100644
--- a/src/spatial-solving/solverfactory.hh
+++ b/src/spatial-solving/solverfactory.hh
@@ -10,9 +10,9 @@
 #include <dune/solvers/solvers/loopsolver.hh>
 #include <dune/solvers/transferoperators/compressedmultigridtransfer.hh>
 #include <dune/tnnmg/iterationsteps/genericnonlineargs.hh>
-#include <dune/tnnmg/iterationsteps/tnnmgstep.hh>
+//#include <dune/tnnmg/iterationsteps/tnnmgstep.hh>
 
-#define USE_OLD_TNNMG
+#define USE_OLD_TNNMG //needed for old bisection.hh in tnnmg
 
 template <size_t dim, class BlockProblemTEMPLATE, class DeformedGridTEMPLATE>
 class SolverFactory {
@@ -28,8 +28,8 @@ class SolverFactory {
   using NonlinearSmoother = GenericNonlinearGS<BlockProblem>;
 
 public:
-  using Step =
-      TruncatedNonsmoothNewtonMultigrid<BlockProblem, NonlinearSmoother>;
+  using Step = NonlinearSmoother;
+      //TruncatedNonsmoothNewtonMultigrid<BlockProblem, NonlinearSmoother>;
 
   SolverFactory(Dune::ParameterTree const &parset, const DeformedGrid& grid,
                 Dune::BitSetVector<dim> const &ignoreNodes);