On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 08:08:29AM -0500, Matthew Saltzman wrote:
On Thu, 2010-01-28 at 17:23 +1100, Chris Smart wrote:
> 2010/1/28 Neal Becker <ndbecker2(a)gmail.com>:
>
> >
> > You don't need to re-run dracut. All you need to do is add this the the
> > kernel command line:
> > rdblacklist=nouveau
> >
>
> This is completely unnecessary. The module has been black listed and
> all future kernel updates will exclude the module. The problem is that
> the current initramfs was not re-built when installing the nvidia
> driver (which it probably should do after blacklisting the module).
>
> > This is much simpler than other solutions.
>
> It's simpler than running a single dracut command?
Sure. Once you've done it, it propagates to new kernels.
> Even if you think
> that it is, it's more _correct_ to re-build the initramfs.
That's probably true. That should be in the RPMfusion packaging,
though.
Rebuilding an initial ramdisk is sufficiently intrusive that perhaps
the RPMFusion maintainers were reticent to just do it automatically --
especially if it might undo other customizations on the user side
without warning.
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