Re: [CentOS] nouveau driver one centos 6
Hi, Jerry Try appending 'rdblacklist=nouveau' to the kernel line in grub.conf (and keep the blackist in modules.conf) - install CentOS and reboot as usual - preempt booting at the grub menu and append 'rdblacklist=nouveau 3' to the kernel line to disable nouveau and start up in init 3 - install the Nvidia binary driver. Optionally, do a yum upgrade, reboot back to init 3 and build the driver on the latest kernel - edit grub.conf and remove the '3' and reboot again Nouveau will now stop loading and use your nvidia driver cheers, - cal On 21/07/11 13:08, Jerry Geis wrote: I wish to not load the or even install the nouveau driver by default. I want to use the NVIDIA binary driver. I have tried a number of things: 1) in my kickstart package section add the line: -xorg-x11-drv-nouveau This did not work - it was still installed. 2) use the nvidia installer and it asks to create a modprobe.conf file to blacklist the driver. I said yes thats what I want. I verified the file being present and rebooted. The driver is still loaded lsmod | grep nou still showed it present. 3) I tried rpm -e xorg-x11-drv-nouveau --nodeps. This seeming worked however the files for nouveau were still present. find / | grep nouveau showed driver files and more So - anyone know how to get this off of my machine??? I thought the - in the kickstart package section would work, but no. Thanks so much for any thoughts. jerry ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] nouveau driver one centos 6
CS wrote: Hi, Jerry Try appending 'rdblacklist=nouveau' to the kernel line in grub.conf (and keep the blackist in modules.conf) - install CentOS and reboot as usual - preempt booting at the grub menu and append 'rdblacklist=nouveau 3' to the kernel line to disable nouveau and start up in init 3 - install the Nvidia binary driver. Optionally, do a yum upgrade, reboot back to init 3 and build the driver on the latest kernel - edit grub.conf and remove the '3' and reboot again Nouveau will now stop loading and use your nvidia driver cheers, - cal Please do not top post. There is no need to compile nvidia binary drivery. There is nVidia driver rpm in ElRepo repository. -- Ljubomir Ljubojevic (Love is in the Air) PL Computers Serbia, Europe Google is the Mother, Google is the Father, and traceroute is your trusty Spiderman... StarOS, Mikrotik and CentOS/RHEL/Linux consultant ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] nouveau driver one centos 6
On Jul 21, 2011, at 8:08 AM, Jerry Geis ge...@pagestation.com wrote: I wish to not load the or even install the nouveau driver by default. I want to use the NVIDIA binary driver. I have tried a number of things: 1) in my kickstart package section add the line: -xorg-x11-drv-nouveau This did not work - it was still installed. 2) use the nvidia installer and it asks to create a modprobe.conf file to blacklist the driver. I said yes thats what I want. I verified the file being present and rebooted. The driver is still loaded lsmod | grep nou still showed it present. 3) I tried rpm -e xorg-x11-drv-nouveau --nodeps. This seeming worked however the files for nouveau were still present. find / | grep nouveau showed driver files and more So - anyone know how to get this off of my machine??? I thought the - in the kickstart package section would work, but no. Thanks so much for any thoughts. Try removing it from initd config and run a mkinitd for the current kernel? You may need to add the nvidia one to the initd config or maybe the vesa one so graphical boot works. -Ross ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] nouveau driver one centos 6
Hi Jerry, The following link worked for me. http://scientificlinuxforum.org/index.php?showtopic=15 On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 8:08 AM, Jerry Geis ge...@pagestation.com wrote: I wish to not load the or even install the nouveau driver by default. I want to use the NVIDIA binary driver. I have tried a number of things: 1) in my kickstart package section add the line: -xorg-x11-drv-nouveau This did not work - it was still installed. 2) use the nvidia installer and it asks to create a modprobe.conf file to blacklist the driver. I said yes thats what I want. I verified the file being present and rebooted. The driver is still loaded lsmod | grep nou still showed it present. 3) I tried rpm -e xorg-x11-drv-nouveau --nodeps. This seeming worked however the files for nouveau were still present. find / | grep nouveau showed driver files and more So - anyone know how to get this off of my machine??? I thought the - in the kickstart package section would work, but no. Thanks so much for any thoughts. jerry ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos -- Kind Regards Earl Ramirez ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] nouveau driver one centos 6
You need to exclude it in grub otherwise the graphical boot loads it. On Jul 21, 2011 10:08 PM, Jerry Geis ge...@pagestation.com wrote: I wish to not load the or even install the nouveau driver by default. I want to use the NVIDIA binary driver. I have tried a number of things: 1) in my kickstart package section add the line: -xorg-x11-drv-nouveau This did not work - it was still installed. 2) use the nvidia installer and it asks to create a modprobe.conf file to blacklist the driver. I said yes thats what I want. I verified the file being present and rebooted. The driver is still loaded lsmod | grep nou still showed it present. 3) I tried rpm -e xorg-x11-drv-nouveau --nodeps. This seeming worked however the files for nouveau were still present. find / | grep nouveau showed driver files and more So - anyone know how to get this off of my machine??? I thought the - in the kickstart package section would work, but no. Thanks so much for any thoughts. jerry ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] nouveau driver one centos 6
On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 8:08 AM, Jerry Geis ge...@pagestation.com wrote: I wish to not load the or even install the nouveau driver by default. I want to use the NVIDIA binary driver. I'm pretty sure that the elrepo driver is the binary driver. http://elrepo.org gives instructions on enabling it, then just install the driver. It will do the blacklisting of noveau and all the rest for you. -- Scott Robbins PGP keyID EB3467D6 ( 1B48 077D 66F6 9DB0 FDC2 A409 FA54 EB34 67D6 ) gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys EB3467D6 Xander: I wish dating was like slaying. You know, simple, direct, stake through the heart, no muss, no fuss. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] nouveau driver one centos 6
Jerry Geis wrote: I wish to not load the or even install the nouveau driver by default. I want to use the NVIDIA binary driver. We could approach the developers of nouveau with pitchforks and torches I have tried a number of things: snip There was a blacklist of nouveau on my kernel line in grub.conf, and it still loaded. 3) I tried rpm -e xorg-x11-drv-nouveau --nodeps. This seeming worked however the files for nouveau were still present. find / | grep nouveau showed driver files and more So - anyone know how to get this off of my machine??? Try what I did: yum remove, which got, as a dependency, Jul 20 09:41:08 Erased: xorg-x11-drivers Jul 20 09:41:08 Erased: xorg-x11-drv-nouveau I was puzzled to not that the former of the two is an rpm of zero bytes. snip mark ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] nouveau driver one centos 6
On Thu, 21 Jul 2011, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: I was puzzled to not that the former of the two is an rpm of zero bytes. Why puzzled? I'm guessing it's just an empty RPM with a load of dependencies as a way of cleaning up the dependency chain. jh ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] nouveau driver one centos 6
John Hodrien wrote: On Thu, 21 Jul 2011, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: I was puzzled to not that the former of the two is an rpm of zero bytes. Why puzzled? I'm guessing it's just an empty RPM with a load of dependencies as a way of cleaning up the dependency chain. Ok, I didn't rpm -ql to see what was in it, but as it listed as empty... and why wouldn't the driver rpm have the dependencies in it? mark ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] nouveau driver one centos 6
On Thu, 21 Jul 2011, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: John Hodrien wrote: On Thu, 21 Jul 2011, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: I was puzzled to not that the former of the two is an rpm of zero bytes. Why puzzled? I'm guessing it's just an empty RPM with a load of dependencies as a way of cleaning up the dependency chain. Ok, I didn't rpm -ql to see what was in it, but as it listed as empty... and why wouldn't the driver rpm have the dependencies in it? The driver rpm depends on all the specific driver RPMs. The 0 byte figure is because the driver RPM contains no files. But it means your kickstart (and the default install groups) can have xorg-x11-drv and doesn't need to be updated everytime they add a new driver (which'd be pretty annoying). jh ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] nouveau driver one centos 6
On 21/07/11 13:08, Jerry Geis wrote: I wish to not load the or even install the nouveau driver by default. I want to use the NVIDIA binary driver. I have tried a number of things: 1) in my kickstart package section add the line: -xorg-x11-drv-nouveau This did not work - it was still installed. 2) use the nvidia installer and it asks to create a modprobe.conf file to blacklist the driver. I said yes thats what I want. I verified the file being present and rebooted. The driver is still loaded lsmod | grep nou still showed it present. 3) I tried rpm -e xorg-x11-drv-nouveau --nodeps. This seeming worked however the files for nouveau were still present. find / | grep nouveau showed driver files and more So - anyone know how to get this off of my machine??? I thought the - in the kickstart package section would work, but no. Thanks so much for any thoughts. jerry From elrepo.org, yum install kmod-nvidia will take care of everything for you, and because it's a kABI-tracking kmod package you won't need to rebuild the kernel module for each kernel update, and yum will automatically take care of future nvidia driver updates for you too. A word of warning - there is a bug [1,2] in 6.0 that means installing kmod-nvidia from a kickstart file will *fail* so I would advise performing your install and then manually installing kmod-nvidia immediately afterwards. Alternatively there is a workaround in the elrepo bug report [3] should you really want to do this from a kickstart script. Hope that helps. [1] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=625216 [2] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=657257 [3] http://elrepo.org/bugs/view.php?id=98 ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] nouveau driver one centos 6
Ned Slider wrote:
On 21/07/11 13:08, Jerry Geis wrote:
I wish to not load the or even install the nouveau driver by default.
I want to use the NVIDIA binary driver.
I have tried a number of things:
1) in my kickstart package section add the line:
-xorg-x11-drv-nouveau
This did not work - it was still installed.
2) use the nvidia installer and it asks to create a modprobe.conf file
to blacklist
the driver. I said yes thats what I want. I verified the file being
present and rebooted.
The driver is still loaded lsmod | grep nou still showed it present.
3) I tried rpm -e xorg-x11-drv-nouveau --nodeps. This seeming worked
however
the files for nouveau were still present. find / | grep nouveau showed
driver files and more
So - anyone know how to get this off of my machine???
I thought the - in the kickstart package section would work, but no.
Thanks so much for any thoughts.
jerry
From elrepo.org,
yum install kmod-nvidia
will take care of everything for you, and because it's a kABI-tracking
kmod package you won't need to rebuild the kernel module for each kernel
update, and yum will automatically take care of future nvidia driver
updates for you too.
A word of warning - there is a bug [1,2] in 6.0 that means installing
kmod-nvidia from a kickstart file will *fail* so I would advise
performing your install and then manually installing kmod-nvidia
immediately afterwards. Alternatively there is a workaround in the
elrepo bug report [3] should you really want to do this from a kickstart
script.
Hope that helps.
[1] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=625216
[2] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=657257
[3] http://elrepo.org/bugs/view.php?id=98
Workaround from elrepo bug report:
I was able to confirm that adding this line to the post section of the
kickstart script before installing the modules fixes the problem:
ln -s `awk '{ if ($2 == /) print $1; }' /etc/fstab` /dev/root
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Serbia, Europe
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trusty Spiderman...
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