John Hodrien wrote:
On Mon, 29 Feb 2016, m.roth@5-cent.us wrote:
Fully updated 7.2 system. I installed the correct proprietary NVidia driver (the user's expensive proprietary visualization software won't run with nouveau), I've put nouveau.modeset=0 rd.driver.blacklist=nouveau on the kernel line for grub2, and even yum removed the nouveau driver and built a new initrd... which won't boot, it seems to start and than does nothing, with a black screen, and this is just while booting, before it goes to graphical mode.
If I boot the as-built current initramfs, it loads nouveau, though one of the modules listed if I do lsmod | grep nou shows nvidia, in addition to nouveau.
So, in 7, what do I have to do to make nouveau go away? Is it as simple as creating an /etc/X11/xorg.conf, or...?
Do you have a sound reason for not using elrepo's packaged nvidia driver?
Because I was looking late Friday afternoon, and had a vague memory that they'd dropped support for this card (the "newer" machine is only six or seven years old, as opposed to the 10-yr-old one tht died: this is your tax dollars at work, US citizens... and, btw, I see among the things this researcher's working on is modelling the Zika virus....).
I was busting butt to get him running; as it was, he couldn't work over the weekend, and it took me until lunchtime to get him up and running for now (I *adore* NAC on the switches....).
Now that he's running, I just looked, and I see that the legacy 304 kmod-nvidia driver should support it, so, next time he's out for a day, I'll try installing that.
Thanks for the reminder.
mark