On 31/05/18 02:13, Jerry Geis wrote:

I have NOUVEAU driver disabled however its "showing" in my X log file.

[ 140.086] (II) NVIDIA dlloader X Driver 390.59 Wed May 9 21:30:06 PDT 2018 [ 140.086] (II) NVIDIA Unified Driver for all Supported NVIDIA GPUs [ 140.086] (II) NOUVEAU driver [ 140.087] (II) NOUVEAU driver for NVIDIA chipset families : [ 140.087] RIVA TNT (NV04) [ 140.087] RIVA TNT2 (NV05) [ 140.087] GeForce 256 (NV10) [ 140.087] GeForce 2 (NV11, NV15) [ 140.087] GeForce 4MX (NV17, NV18) [ 140.087] GeForce 3 (NV20) [ 140.087] GeForce 4Ti (NV25, NV28) [ 140.088] GeForce FX (NV3x) [ 140.088] GeForce 6 (NV4x) [ 140.088] GeForce 7 (G7x) [ 140.088] GeForce 8 (G8x) [ 140.088] GeForce GTX 200 (NVA0) [ 140.088] GeForce GTX 400 (NVC0) [ 140.088] (II) modesetting: Driver for Modesetting Kernel Drivers: kms

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From /proc/cmdline

rdblacklist=nouveau nouveau.modeset=0

I believe the correct format is:

rd.driver.blacklist=nouveau

more /etc/modprobe.d/nvidia-installer-disable-nouveau.conf # generated by nvidia-installer blacklist nouveau options nouveau modeset=0

At some point in the past, I think the location for blacklist files changed to /usr/lib/modprobe.d/ and there was a bug in dracut which means the old location wasn't being picked up, so if the driver isn't being blacklisted in the initramfs then this could be the cause.

The other obvious question is does the NVIDIA installer update the initramfs after installation?

These are the items to set to disable nouveau. Why is it "logging" in the X file?

Check your raminitfs to make sure nouveau is being blacklisted:

lsinitrd -k $(uname -r) | grep nvidia-installer-disable-nouveau.conf

If not, try running:

dracut -f /boot/initramfs-$(uname -r).img $(uname -r)

and check again.

If that still doesn't work, see my comment above about the location of the blacklist file.

Thanks,

Jerry