Gnome shell and NVidia binary drivers

Alexander Volovics a.volovic at upcmail.nl
Thu Jun 2 13:22:42 UTC 2011


On Thu, Jun 02, 2011 at 07:57:30AM -0500, Richard Shaw wrote:

> On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 5:16 AM, Alexander Volovics <a.volovic at upcmail.nl> wrote:
> > 1) The rpmfusion (kmod or akmod) install does not get rid of the nouveau
> >   kernel modules as expected. You MUST run dracut to create a new
> >   initramfs file before rebooting. Only then are the nouveau modules
> >   unloaded.
> 
> Well, yes and no. It's true that installing the kmod or akmod does not
> run dracut for you but it should add "rdblacklist=nouveau" to the
> kernel line in your grub.conf which should effectively stop nouveau
> from loading unless that kernel option is broken in F15.
> 
> If rdblacklist is there (and still functional) then that would explain
> why running dracut didn't help.

The first time after rebooting I did of course not run dracut!

The akmod/kmod install had indeed modified
grub.conf to include: "rdblacklist=nouveau nouveau.modeset=0"
(I checked before rebooting). 
But this did NOT stop nouveau from loading.
lsmod showed nouveau and nvidia sitting brotherly together in the kernel.

Only then did I run dracut which indeed removed the nouveau modules.

Could this indicate that this kernel option is broken (and should
I bugzilla it)

Alexander




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