How to Install Nvidia and not Nouveau at New Install

[Matthew Saltzman]

On Sun, 2010-01-24 at 22:27 -0500, Jim wrote: 
> FC12-X86_64/KDE
> 
> How do I prevent Nouveau driver from installing at New install , so I 
> can install
> Nvidia ?

No reason not to install nouveau.  Just complete the installation,
enable the rpmfusion repo and yum install akmod-nvidia from there.

The akmod-nvidia package should do everything necessary to run
correctly, although you might need to add "rdblacklist=nouveau" to the
kernel line in /etc/grub.conf by hand.  That will prevent the nouveau
module from loading and setting the graphics mode at boot. 


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                Matthew Saltzman

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