Blacklisting Nouveau

[Neal Becker]

Jim wrote:

> FC12-x86_64/KDE
> 
> How do you Blacklist nouveau ?
> 
> I have installed kmod-nvidia because nouveau is causing the mouse to
> disappear
> after bringing computer out of a power down after about a half an hour.
> It is nouveau that is causing mouse to disappear, i have installed
> nvidia before and it corrected the disappearing mouse problem.
> 
> But kmod-nvidia is trying to start at boot up but nouveau keeps loading
> module.
> 
> 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?

You don't need to re-run dracut.  All you need to do is add this the the 
kernel command line:
 rdblacklist=nouveau

This is much simpler than other solutions.