they both load up fine. but when X is started the nvidia driver cannot initialize the card because nouveau has control of it. apparently even if blacklist nouveau is defined, you still have to do a mkinitrd :). all is good now for me. On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 9:00 AM, Paul W. Frields<stickster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 06:23:04PM -0400, slamp slamp wrote: >> bump. >> >> On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 12:49 AM, slamp slamp<slackamp@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> > how do i disable nouveau from loading? i am using fedora 11 upgrade >> > from fedora 10. >> > >> > i tried to add "blacklist nouveau" in the blacklist.conf, tried to add >> > "alias nouveau off" in modprobe.conf. > > Hmm, I seem to be loading both here without a problem.[1] > > $ lsmod | grep -E '(nvi|nouv)' > nvidia 8113064 30 > nouveau 470896 0 > drm 205980 1 nouveau > i2c_algo_bit 5972 1 nouveau > i2c_core 22240 5 nvidia,i2c_i801,nouveau,drm,i2c_algo_bit > > $ rpm -qa \*drv-{nouveau,nvidia} > xorg-x11-drv-nouveau-0.0.12-36.20090514git9656762.fc11.x86_64 > xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-180.51-1.fc11.x86_64 > > > = = = > > [1] No, I'm not happy about tainting my kernel, but I absolutely > require the ability to sleep my laptop, and there are still some bugs > the nouveau maintainers are working through to make that > possible. (Q.v. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Common_F11_bugs.) I > originally bought a laptop with Intel graphics, but after a > catastrophic failure, the manufacturer replaced it with a model with > NVidia. :-( At least they upgraded everything else. > > -- > Paul W. Frields http://paul.frields.org/ > gpg fingerprint: 3DA6 A0AC 6D58 FEC4 0233 5906 ACDB C937 BD11 3717 > http://redhat.com/ - - - - http://pfrields.fedorapeople.org/ > irc.freenode.net: stickster @ #fedora-docs, #fedora-devel, #fredlug > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list > Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines > -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines