Ned Slider wrote: > 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 > Workaround from elrepo bug report: >I was able to confirm that adding this line to the post section of the >kickstart script before installing the modules fixes the problem: > >ln -s `awk '{ if ($2 == "/") print $1; }' /etc/fstab` /dev/root -- Ljubomir Ljubojevic (Love is in the Air) PL Computers Serbia, Europe Google is the Mother, Google is the Father, and traceroute is your trusty Spiderman... StarOS, Mikrotik and CentOS/RHEL/Linux consultant