Hi, Jerry

Try appending 'rdblacklist=nouveau' to the kernel line in grub.conf (and keep the blackist in modules.conf)

- install CentOS and reboot as usual - preempt booting at the grub menu and append 'rdblacklist=nouveau 3' to the kernel line to disable nouveau and start up in init 3 - install the Nvidia binary driver. Optionally, do a yum upgrade, reboot back to init 3 and build the driver on the latest kernel - edit grub.conf and remove the '3' and reboot again

Nouveau will now stop loading and use your nvidia driver

cheers,

- cal

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:

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.

jerry