nvidia driver will not load because of nouveau

[Neal Becker]

slamp slamp wrote:

> 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 at gmail.com>
> 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 at gmail.com> 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
>>

They are both loaded here, and nothing seems broken (other than load ave of 
kwin+X is a bit higher than I recall under F10).