nvidia driver will not load because of nouveau

Paul W. Frields stickster at gmail.com
Thu Jun 11 13:00:07 UTC 2009


On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 06:23:04PM -0400, slamp slamp wrote:
> bump.
> 
> On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 12:49 AM, slamp slamp<slackamp at gmail.com> wrote:
> > how do i disable nouveau from loading? i am using fedora 11 upgrade
> > from fedora 10.
> >
> > i tried to add "blacklist nouveau" in the blacklist.conf, tried to add
> > "alias nouveau off" in modprobe.conf.

Hmm, I seem to be loading both here without a problem.[1]

$ lsmod | grep -E '(nvi|nouv)'
nvidia               8113064  30 
nouveau               470896  0 
drm                   205980  1 nouveau
i2c_algo_bit            5972  1 nouveau
i2c_core               22240  5 nvidia,i2c_i801,nouveau,drm,i2c_algo_bit

$ rpm -qa \*drv-{nouveau,nvidia}
xorg-x11-drv-nouveau-0.0.12-36.20090514git9656762.fc11.x86_64
xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-180.51-1.fc11.x86_64


= = =

[1] No, I'm not happy about tainting my kernel, but I absolutely
require the ability to sleep my laptop, and there are still some bugs
the nouveau maintainers are working through to make that
possible. (Q.v. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Common_F11_bugs.)  I
originally bought a laptop with Intel graphics, but after a
catastrophic failure, the manufacturer replaced it with a model with
NVidia. :-( At least they upgraded everything else.

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