Re: [CentOS] nouveau driver one centos 6
On Jul 21, 2011, at 8:08 AM, 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. 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
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
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
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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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
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
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: > 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
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: 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. mark ___ 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 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
You need to exclude it in grub otherwise the graphical boot loads it. On Jul 21, 2011 10:08 PM, "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 ___ 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 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
[CentOS] nouveau driver one centos 6
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
