Disable loading of nouveau driver for installing NVidia driver

[Kevin J. Cummings]

On 03/19/2011 11:09 AM, Mark Ryden wrote:
> Hello,
> I tried to install NVIdia driver from their site for GeForce 8400 GS
> display card.
> I ahve F12 x86_64.

Have you tried the rpmfusion nvidia drivers?  I use them on F13, and I
don't have to do anything special for my brand-spanking-new GT218 card.
Nouveau gracefully gets out of the way.  I don't have to re-build the
nvidia drivers, RPMFusion does that for me.  Running in 32-bit now, but
that will soon change to 64-bit when I upgrade to F15....

> I downloaded from NVidia site this file:
> NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-260.19.44.run which is a 64 bit setup for Linux
> I tried to run it from terminal.
> I got an error message that nouveau driver must not be loaded.
> I cannot rmmod it because of dependencies.
> The installer suggested that I will agee to add a file to
> /etc/modprobe.d, which
> will disable the installation. I agreed and it added a file named
> nvidia-installer-disable-nouveau.conf;
> this file has 2 lines only:
> blacklist nouveau
> options nouveau modeset=0

The file RPMFUsion put there contains:
> # RPM Fusion blacklist for nouveau driver - you need to run as root:
> # dracut -f /boot/initramfs-$(uname -r).img $(uname -r)
> # if nouveau is loaded despite this file.
> blacklist nouveau

Maybe that information is useful to you....

> Nevertheless, after boot, the nouveau driver is **still* loaded.
> What should I do ?

HTH, good luck!

> rgs,
> Mark

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