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