[rhelv6-beta-list] Installing Nvidia graphics drivers?

[Brian Long]

On 07/30/2010 09:06 AM, James Pearson wrote:
> I've installed the latest beta2 on a workstation with an Nvidia graphics
> card and I wanted to install the Nvidia drivers - but I couldn't as the
> nouveau drivers were installed.
> 
> It looks like the nouveau driver is still used even when X isn't
> running, which seems strange - and it appears impossible to remove it
> from a running system.
> 
> In the end, I had to boot the machine with "rdblacklist=nouveau" on the
> boot command line and create a modprobe.d blacklist entry for nouveau -
> which seems a rather over the top procedure ...
> 
> Is there a 'proper' way of disabling/removing the nouveau driver?

Blacklisting the nouveau driver in modprobe.d is how many of us choose
the proprietary Nvidia drivers over nouveau.  In fact, AtRPMS.net has
nvidia RPMs which do this automatically for RHEL 5 and Fedora systems
and I'm fairly certain he has a RHEL 6 repo available as well.

/Brian/
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