Blacklisting Nouveau

[Paul W. Frields]

On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 05:37:01PM -0500, 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 need to rebuild the initial ramdisk, and I believe instructions
for doing that are shown directly in that blacklisting file.

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