Re: nouveau vs nvidia - fresh install, nouveau wins

On Tue, 2011-05-03 at 20:36 -0700, Fedor Pikus wrote:
> The NVidia RPM is configured to blacklist nouveau, which usually does
> the job of removing it. But recently I ran into the case where it does
> not work. It goes like this:
> 1) Do fresh install of F14 (may be others, but that's all I tried).
> 2) During install, configure F14 update repos
> 3) After install, add ATRPM repos and install NVidia drivers
> 
> NVidia module does not load, lsmod shows that nouveau is there.
> Blacklist does not help, blacklisting nouveau on the boot line does
> not help,

Have you tried nouveau.modeset=0?

> even removing nouveau.ko does not help. Fedora installer
> crammed nouveau into initrd! The only solution is to rerun mkinitrd,
> don't need any special arguments, I think nouveau is not one of the
> modules mkinitrd adds just because they are loaded when it runs.
> 
> I think if you update the kernel, the problem goes away because
> mkinitrd reruns and new initrd does not contain nouveau (this is why,
> if you don't configure updates, the problem usually does not happen,
> at least if the kernel is updated before ATRPMs are added). Perhaps
> the NVidia RPM from ATRPMs should also regenerate initrd using
> whatever commands the kernel RPM does?
> 


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