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:
- in my kickstart package section add the line:
-xorg-x11-drv-nouveau
This did not work - it was still installed.
- 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.
- 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
From elrepo.org,
yum install kmod-nvidia
will take care of everything for you, and because it's a kABI-tracking kmod package you won't need to rebuild the kernel module for each kernel update, and yum will automatically take care of future nvidia driver updates for you too.
A word of warning - there is a bug [1,2] in 6.0 that means installing kmod-nvidia from a kickstart file will *fail* so I would advise performing your install and then manually installing kmod-nvidia immediately afterwards. Alternatively there is a workaround in the elrepo bug report [3] should you really want to do this from a kickstart script.
Hope that helps.
[1] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=625216 [2] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=657257 [3] http://elrepo.org/bugs/view.php?id=98