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 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