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 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20110722/a6be3570/attachment-0005.html>