<p>You need to exclude it in grub otherwise the graphical boot loads it. <br>
On Jul 21, 2011 10:08 PM, "Jerry Geis" <<a href="mailto:geisj@pagestation.com">geisj@pagestation.com</a>> wrote:<br>
><br>
> I "wish" to not load the or even install the nouveau driver by default.<br>
> I want to use the NVIDIA binary driver.<br>
><br>
> I have tried a number of things:<br>
><br>
> 1) in my kickstart package section add the line:<br>
> -xorg-x11-drv-nouveau<br>
><br>
> This did not work - it was still installed.<br>
><br>
> 2) use the nvidia installer and it asks to create a modprobe.conf file<br>
> to blacklist<br>
> the driver. I said yes thats what I want. I verified the file being<br>
> present and rebooted.<br>
> The driver is still loaded "lsmod | grep nou" still showed it present.<br>
><br>
> 3) I tried "rpm -e xorg-x11-drv-nouveau --nodeps". This seeming worked<br>
> however<br>
> the files for nouveau were still present. find / | grep nouveau showed<br>
> driver files and more....<br>
><br>
> So - anyone know how to get this off of my machine???<br>
> I thought the "-" in the kickstart package section would work, but no.<br>
><br>
> Thanks so much for any thoughts.<br>
><br>
> jerry<br>
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