Blacklisting Nouveau

Michael Cronenworth mike at cchtml.com
Wed Jan 27 22:53:27 UTC 2010


Jim wrote:
> I have in /etc/modprobe.d a "blacklist nouveau" but it's not preventing
> the nouveau module from loading.
> What else can I do to preventing it from loading?

In order for your settings in modprobe to take effect, you have to 
rebuild the kernel initramfs. The easiest method is to reinstall your 
kernel, unless you feel comfortable enough to mess with dracut.

# yum reinstall kernel kernel-devel


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