Blacklisting Nouveau

[Matthew Saltzman]

On Thu, 2010-01-28 at 17:23 +1100, 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? 

Sure.  Once you've done it, it propagates to new kernels.

> Even if you think
> that it is, it's more _correct_ to re-build the initramfs.

That's probably true.  That should be in the RPMfusion packaging,
though.

> 
> -c
> 

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                Matthew Saltzman

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