On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 6:21 PM, Jeffrey J. Kosowsky <atr...@kosowsky.org>wrote:
> Paulo Cavalcanti wrote at about 15:40:40 -0200 on Friday, December 4, 2009:
> > ------------------------------------------------------
> >
> > # put nouveau out of the game
> > blacklist nouveau
> > # nvidia kernel module
> > alias char-major-195 nvidia-190_42
> > alias nvidia nvidia-190_42
> >
> > ---------------------------------------------------------
>
> I tried this and it dutifully created the /etc/modprobe.d/nvidia.conf
> file.
>
> I then regenerated initramfs using:
> dracut -f /boot/initramfs-$(uname -r).img $(uname -r)
>
> However, the resulting new initramfs didn't include the new
> nvidia.conf so of course the nouveau module still loaded and got
> locked on boot resulting in nvidia not being able to load.
> I also tried doing 'depmod -a' before and after the dracut statement.
>
> I was able to get things to work by adding the 'blacklist nouveau'
> line to my /etc/modprobe.conf file.
>
> However, I am puzzled by why dracut is not adding the new
> /etc/modprobe.d/nvidia.conf file to the initramfs.
>
> I would have thought that dracut would automatically include *all*
> files in /etc/modprobe ending in ".conf". But is there something I
> need to do to "tell" dracut that a new .conf was added to /etc/modprobe.d?
>
Try adding this option in grub.conf, at the end of the kernel line:
rdblacklist=nouveau
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
title Fedora (2.6.31.6-166.fc12.x86_64)
root (hd1,1)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.31.6-166.fc12.x86_64 ro
root=UUID=7cb425aa-b871-4304-bcde-253da4c1c68a LANG=en_US.UTF-8 SYSFONT=lat
arcyrheb-sun16 KEYBOARDTYPE=pc KEYTABLE=br-abnt2 quiet rdblacklist=nouveau
initrd /initramfs-2.6.31.6-166.fc12.x86_64.img
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Paulo Roma Cavalcanti
LCG - UFRJ
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