Blacklisting Nouveau

Neal Becker ndbecker2 at gmail.com
Thu Jan 28 12:19:45 UTC 2010


Chris Smart wrote:

> 2010/1/28 Neal Becker <ndbecker2 at gmail.com>:
> 
>>
>> 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 completely unnecessary. The module has been black listed and
> all future kernel updates will exclude the module. The problem is that
> the current initramfs was not re-built when installing the nvidia
> driver (which it probably should do after blacklisting the module).
> 
>> This is much simpler than other solutions.
> 
> It's simpler than running a single dracut command? Even if you think
> that it is, it's more _correct_ to re-build the initramfs.
> 
> -c

rdblacklist approach has the advantage that I can switch back to test 
nouveau easily (would be even easier if rpmfusion would make it so you could 
reliably disable loading nvidia module).



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