[CentOS] CentOS 7.2, nouveau won't go away

> -----Original Message-----
> From: centos-bounces at centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces at centos.org] On
> Behalf Of John Hodrien
> Sent: den 29 februari 2016 17:55
> To: CentOS mailing list
> Subject: Re: [CentOS] CentOS 7.2, nouveau won't go away
>
> >   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?

I'm guessing the OP's using Nvidias 3D-vision features, which at least over
here never worked properly with the elrepo package.


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//Sorin