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How to get rid of nouveau driver (permanently)

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http://forums.fedoraforum.org – I am running F12. With prior kernels - 2.6.31.9-174.fc12.i686 or before - I could simply rename the nouveau.ko driver to nouiveau.ko.bad. Then the kernel would load the nv driver instead, and everything worked great. FWIW: adding rdblacklist="nouveau" to the kernel params in grub.conf didn't seem to do anything. On a recent update, a new kernel was added: 2.6.31.12-174.2.19.fc12.i686. I did the same rename trick as before, but this time the kernel still loaded the nouveau driver, and then X failed to load. So I had to fall back to the older kernel. Is there a way to keep nouveau from loading with the newest kernel (ie, the one above)? And also, is there a way to keep nouveau from loading for any new kernels? TIA ken (HowTos)

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hi all.. im new to linux...and here is what happened.

Prerequisite

Download nvidia.com the latest driver for x86-x64 (64-bit linux) or x86 (32-bit linux)

# do a yum update to make sure you're on newest kernel release, better to not have to do this twice

Code: yum update #should be install kernel headers and devel

Code: yum -y install kernel-devel kernel-headers Terminal:

#make sure Open source nouveau driver is blacklisted f

It works!! alright it was a video driver problem, and for some reason I think there is a problem with the nouveau driver and the kernel. I read this thread, and I don't think the problem is fixed yet. I reloaded the nvidia-304xx driver and suspend and hibernate work fine.

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Hi folks,installed (apto)SID, everything went fine, using kernel 3.3-5.slh.3-aptosid-686I have a "Geforce 210".But I get these errors with the gfx rendering (right click the picture -> show image):any suggestions ?Proprietary driver install failed, nvidia-kernel-dkms / -glx driver install the "debian way" failed too, so it seems I have to use the f****ing nouveau driver ?!?G