Hi, folks,
Fully updated 7.2 system. I installed the correct proprietary NVidia
driver (the user's expensive proprietary visualization software won't
run with nouveau), I've put nouveau.modeset=0
rd.driver.blacklist=nouveau on the kernel line for grub2, and even yum
removed the nouveau driver and built a new initrd... which won't boot,
it seems to start and than does nothing, with a black screen, and this
is just while booting, before it goes to graphical mode.
If I boot the as-built current initramfs, it loads nouveau, though one
of the modules listed if I do lsmod | grep nou shows nvidia, in
addition to nouveau.
So, in 7, what do I have to do to make nouveau go away? Is it as simple
as creating an /etc/X11/xorg.conf, or...?
mark
On Mon, 29 Feb 2016, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote:> Hi, folks, > > Fully updated 7.2 system. I installed the correct proprietary NVidia > driver (the user's expensive proprietary visualization software won't > run with nouveau), I've put nouveau.modeset=0 > rd.driver.blacklist=nouveau on the kernel line for grub2, and even yum > removed the nouveau driver and built a new initrd... which won't boot, > it seems to start and than does nothing, with a black screen, and this > is just while booting, before it goes to graphical mode. > > If I boot the as-built current initramfs, it loads nouveau, though one > of the modules listed if I do lsmod | grep nou shows nvidia, in > addition to nouveau. > > So, in 7, what do I have to do to make nouveau go away? Is it as simple > as creating an /etc/X11/xorg.conf, or...?Do you have a sound reason for not using elrepo's packaged nvidia driver? jh
John Hodrien wrote:> On Mon, 29 Feb 2016, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote: >> >> Fully updated 7.2 system. I installed the correct proprietary NVidia >> driver (the user's expensive proprietary visualization software won't >> run with nouveau), I've put nouveau.modeset=0 >> rd.driver.blacklist=nouveau on the kernel line for grub2, and even yum >> removed the nouveau driver and built a new initrd... which won't boot, >> it seems to start and than does nothing, with a black screen, and this >> is just while booting, before it goes to graphical mode. >> >> If I boot the as-built current initramfs, it loads nouveau, though one >> of the modules listed if I do lsmod | grep nou shows nvidia, in >> addition to nouveau. >> >> So, in 7, what do I have to do to make nouveau go away? Is it as >> simple >> as creating an /etc/X11/xorg.conf, or...? > > Do you have a sound reason for not using elrepo's packaged nvidia driver? >Because I was looking late Friday afternoon, and had a vague memory that they'd dropped support for this card (the "newer" machine is only six or seven years old, as opposed to the 10-yr-old one tht died: this is your tax dollars at work, US citizens... and, btw, I see among the things this researcher's working on is modelling the Zika virus....). I was busting butt to get him running; as it was, he couldn't work over the weekend, and it took me until lunchtime to get him up and running for now (I *adore* NAC on the switches....). Now that he's running, I just looked, and I see that the legacy 304 kmod-nvidia driver should support it, so, next time he's out for a day, I'll try installing that. Thanks for the reminder. mark
> -----Original Message----- > From: centos-bounces at centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces at centos.org] On > Behalf Of John Hodrien > Sent: den 29 februari 2016 17:55 > To: CentOS mailing list > Subject: Re: [CentOS] CentOS 7.2, nouveau won't go away > > > Fully updated 7.2 system. I installed the correct proprietary NVidia > > driver (the user's expensive proprietary visualization software won't > > run with nouveau), I've put nouveau.modeset=0 > > rd.driver.blacklist=nouveau on the kernel line for grub2, and even yum > > removed the nouveau driver and built a new initrd... which won't boot, > > it seems to start and than does nothing, with a black screen, and this > > is just while booting, before it goes to graphical mode. > > > > If I boot the as-built current initramfs, it loads nouveau, though one > > of the modules listed if I do lsmod | grep nou shows nvidia, in > > addition to nouveau. > > > > So, in 7, what do I have to do to make nouveau go away? Is it assimple> > as creating an /etc/X11/xorg.conf, or...? > > Do you have a sound reason for not using elrepo's packaged nvidia driver?I'm guessing the OP's using Nvidias 3D-vision features, which at least over here never worked properly with the elrepo package. -- //Sorin