Re: Installing Fedora 18 with prexisting fedora 17 partitions
On 02/26/2013 01:48 AM, Greg Woods wrote:
On Mon, 2013-02-25 at 07:15 +1100, Stephen Morris wrote:
> I have all sorts of problems installing the
> proprietary nvidia driver from the rpmfusion directories as the install
> does not remove the nouveau driver from the initrd
This has been covered on this list before. You need to add
"rdblacklist=nouveau" to your kernel command line; that prevents the
nouveau driver from being loaded out of the initrd. That's
in /etc/default/grub, then run "grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/grub2/grub.cfg"
to make it effective. For old grub, edit "/boot/grub/grub.conf"
--Greg
I tried using that in Fedora 17, but it did not work for me as the
nvidia driver still complained it could not load its module while the
nouveau driver was active, and I found that the method documented on the
net of rebuilding the initrd with the nvidia driver installed to remove
the nouveau driver did not work either for the same reasons. The only
way I could find to get it to work was to uninstall the latest kernel
and reinstall it which did not install the nouveau driver when it built
the initrd, and all subsequent kernel installs did the same thing.
regards,
Steve
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