How to remove nouveau driver without using rpmfusion ?

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John Wendel <jwendel10 at comcast.net> writes:

> Can someone please post the incantation necessary to remove the
> nouveau driver in Fedora 19. I'd really like to install the driver
> directly from Nvidia, instead of from rpmfusion.

You can blacklist it in grub.cfg:


linux   /boot/vmlinuz-3.9.6-200.fc18.x86_64 [...] nouveau.modeset=0 rd.driver.blacklist=nouveau video=vesa:off


In F19, this seems to work differently, i. e. the entries for the F19
kernels don't have these boot parameters.

With NVIDIA drivers, you *must* have


GRUB_GFXPAYLOAD_LINUX=text


in /etc/default/grub and it must be in effect.  Otherwise timings can be
screwed up and your X-session may crash.  It crashes not right away but
eventually, and you'll have a very hard time to figure that one out.
(It's somewhere in the documentation from NVIDIA.)


Other than that, if you don't have very serious reasons not to use the
rpmfusion drivers but the original NVIDIA ones, you're much better off
saving yourself all the hassle with the original ones.  (Guess what, I
even got UT2004 to work on F19, only it doesn't like the buttons of my
trackball.)


Question:  How is nouveau blacklisted in F19?


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