[CentOS] nouveau driver one centos 6

[Ross Walker]

On Jul 21, 2011, at 8:08 AM, Jerry Geis <geisj at pagestation.com> 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.

Try removing it from initd config and run a mkinitd for the current kernel?

You may need to add the nvidia one to the initd config or maybe the vesa one so graphical boot works.

-Ross