[CentOS] nouveau driver one centos 6

Fri Jul 22 21:41:40 UTC 2011
CS <calsawyer at yahoo.co.uk>

Hi, Jerry

Try appending 'rdblacklist=nouveau' to the kernel line in grub.conf (and keep the blackist in modules.conf)

- install CentOS and reboot as usual
- preempt booting at the grub menu and append 'rdblacklist=nouveau 3' to the kernel line to disable nouveau and start up in init 3
- install the Nvidia binary driver.  Optionally, do a yum upgrade, reboot back to init 3 and build the driver on the latest kernel
- edit grub.conf and remove the '3' and reboot again

Nouveau will now stop loading and use your nvidia driver

cheers,

- cal

On 21/07/11 13:08, Jerry Geis wrote:
> I "wish" to not load the or even install the nouveau driver by default.
> I want to use the NVIDIA binary driver.
> 
> I have tried a number of things:
> 
> 1) in my kickstart package section add the line:
> -xorg-x11-drv-nouveau
> 
> This did not work - it was still installed.
> 
> 2) use the nvidia installer and it asks to create a modprobe.conf file
> to blacklist
> the driver. I said yes thats what I want. I verified the file being
> present and rebooted.
> The driver is still loaded "lsmod | grep nou" still showed it present.
> 
> 3) I tried "rpm -e xorg-x11-drv-nouveau --nodeps". This seeming worked
> however
> the files for nouveau were still present. find / | grep nouveau showed
> driver files and more....
> 
> So - anyone know how to get this off of my machine???
> I thought the "-" in the kickstart package section would work, but no.
> 
> Thanks so much for any thoughts.
> 
> jerry

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