[CentOS] nouveau driver one centos 6

[Jeff Allison]

You need to exclude it in grub otherwise the graphical boot loads it.
On Jul 21, 2011 10:08 PM, "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.
>
> jerry
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