On 01/11/2016 03:52 PM, Wittner, Ben, Ph.D. wrote: > I started trying to do this, but I'm stuck. > I started with > http://us.download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86_64/340.96/README/installdriver.html > , which led me to > http://us.download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86_64/340.96/README/commonproblems.html#nouveau > . I created /etc/modprobe.d/disable-nouveau.conf as instructed then > rebooted, but the nvidia installer found the nouveau driver running anyway, > so it wrote two more .conf files (one in /usr/lib/modproe.d and the other in > /etc/modeprobe.d) and then halted. I rebooted and tried the installer again, > but again it noticed the nouveau driver running. > I suspect this is because the initial ramdisk image contains Nouveau because, > even though I've done systemctl set-default multi-user.target, during boot I > still see something that looks like a graphical screen display for a while > before it drops back to a text mode to display the login prompt. > So, following the instructions, I tried to rebuild the initial ramdisk image. > The nvidia documentation does not say how to do that, so I Googled and found > https://wiki.centos.org/TipsAndTricks/CreateNewInitrd , which unfortunately > gives instructions only for CentOS 5 and CentOS 6, but not CentOS 7. I'm > afraid to do the wrong thing, so I'm stuck. > Any suggestions would be appreciated. > \
I have not tried it personally, but these instructions seem correct: http://www.dedoimedo.com/computers/centos-7-nvidia.html Basically, edit the grub2 cmdline to include the extra option: rdblacklist=nouveau hth, ~tom == Red Hat _______________________________________________ R-SIG-Fedora mailing list R-SIG-Fedora@r-project.org https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-fedora
