On Mon, 29 Feb 2016, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote: > Hi, folks, > > Fully updated 7.2 system. I installed the correct proprietary NVidia > driver (the user's expensive proprietary visualization software won't > run with nouveau), I've put nouveau.modeset=0 > rd.driver.blacklist=nouveau on the kernel line for grub2, and even yum > removed the nouveau driver and built a new initrd... which won't boot, > it seems to start and than does nothing, with a black screen, and this > is just while booting, before it goes to graphical mode. > > If I boot the as-built current initramfs, it loads nouveau, though one > of the modules listed if I do lsmod | grep nou shows nvidia, in > addition to nouveau. > > So, in 7, what do I have to do to make nouveau go away? Is it as simple > as creating an /etc/X11/xorg.conf, or...? Do you have a sound reason for not using elrepo's packaged nvidia driver? jh