On Jul 21, 2011, at 8:08 AM, Jerry Geis <geisj at pagestation.com> 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. Try removing it from initd config and run a mkinitd for the current kernel? You may need to add the nvidia one to the initd config or maybe the vesa one so graphical boot works. -Ross