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.
Thanks
John Wendel
On 13.07.2013, John Wendel wrote:
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 have to recompile your kernel with nouveau switched it off in your kernel .config (CONFIG_DRM_NOUVEAU). As far as I know, you could also blacklist the nouveau driver and recreate your initramfs (dracut -f).
On Fri, Jul 12, 2013 at 7:41 PM, John Wendel jwendel10@comcast.net wrote:
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.
Thanks
John Wendel
You might want to go to the GUI software installer to uninstall it/
John Wendel jwendel10@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?