Re: [CentOS] nouveau driver one centos 6

2011-07-22 Thread Ross Walker
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

Re: [CentOS] nouveau driver one centos 6

2011-07-22 Thread Ljubomir Ljubojevic
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 st

Re: [CentOS] nouveau driver one centos 6

2011-07-22 Thread CS
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

Re: [CentOS] nouveau driver one centos 6

2011-07-21 Thread Ljubomir Ljubojevic
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 >> >>

Re: [CentOS] nouveau driver one centos 6

2011-07-21 Thread Ned Slider
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 s

Re: [CentOS] nouveau driver one centos 6

2011-07-21 Thread John Hodrien
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 clea

Re: [CentOS] nouveau driver one centos 6

2011-07-21 Thread m . roth
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

Re: [CentOS] nouveau driver one centos 6

2011-07-21 Thread John Hodrien
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 ___ C

Re: [CentOS] nouveau driver one centos 6

2011-07-21 Thread m . roth
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

Re: [CentOS] nouveau driver one centos 6

2011-07-21 Thread Scott Robbins
> > 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 enablin

Re: [CentOS] nouveau driver one centos 6

2011-07-21 Thread Jeff Allison
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 pack

Re: [CentOS] nouveau driver one centos 6

2011-07-21 Thread Earl Ramirez
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

[CentOS] nouveau driver one centos 6

2011-07-21 Thread Jerry Geis
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