errors on trying to install latest nvidia driver with F12

[Richard Shaw]

On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 9:41 AM, Greg Woods <woods at ucar.edu> wrote:
> On Wed, 2009-12-02 at 14:11 +0000, N James Bridge wrote:
>
>> I had (and now have restored) F12 (x86_64) working with the nouveau
>> driver. I have been watching for the nvidia drivers to make it into the
>> RPMfusion repo and they have now done so  and last night I installed the
>> 173 legacy driver (as required for my ancient graphics card!) Result -
>> plymouth intro followed by black screen.
>
> I had a similar problem when trying to install the Nvidia drivers
> manually, downloaded from nvidia.com. It would always fail trying to
> load the kernel module. This (I think) is because the nouveau module was
> already loaded and had grabbed the video card. This, annoyingly,
> happened even if I turned off "rhgb" and booted single user. I finally
> had to boot with "nomodeset" and "3" to get it to boot without nouveau
> loaded, after which I could finally get the Nvidia driver to install.
> (The Nvidia driver will also not install if you are in single user mode,
> hence the "3").
>
> --Greg

FYI, my solution to nouveau loading was to add rdblacklist=nouveau to
the kernel parameters.

Richard