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

[Ned Slider]

On 30/07/10 14:06, 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?
>
> Thanks
>
> James Pearson
>

Nvidia published some hints in the README for their latest driver:

ftp://download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86_64/256.44/README/commonproblems.html#nouveau