On 09/16/15 19:50, Jonathan Billings wrote: > On Sep 16, 2015, at 5:21 PM, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote: >> I tried systemctl start multi-user.target. I tried systemctl stop >> graphical.target. I finally had to set the multi-user.target as the >> default, and reboot, to get rid of the nouveau drivers. >> >> Note that I tried to modprobe -r, and rmmod with all the modules using >> nouveau, and couldn't - I kept getting "in use" - it seemed like a >> circular reference. >> >> As I said, I rebooted. Then I ran the proprietary build, ran fine. I try >> starting the graphical target, no joy. I changed the default target back >> to graphical, and rebooted. Still no xorg. Googling (yahooing?), I added >> rdblacklist=nouveau in grub.conf, *then* had to rebuild the grub2 (grub2 >> must *die*). >> >> Still wouldn't see the nvidia drivers on reboot. Finally, I rebuild the >> initramfs, which got the now-built and installed nvidia drivers (and I'd >> yum uninstalled nouveau), and finally, it came up. >> >> Oh, and for some reason, without the reboot, the Xorg.0.log wasn't >> renewed, as though it hadn't actually restarted X. Plus, it appears that >> <ctrl-alt-bkspc> is disabled.... <snip> > > Of course, none of this had anything to do with systemd, other than the > commands you had to change runlevels. It’d be the same problem with > Upstart in CentOS6, just different commands. The kernel modesetting stuff > is at fault here. But who needs facts to get in the way of a good rant? Really? In Centos 6, if I do an init 3, it shuts down X; none of the above did that, > > I suggest looking at http://elrepo.org/tiki/kmod-nvidia I'm familiar with elrepo. mark