Ned Slider wrote:
> On 21/07/11 13:08, Jerry Geis wrote:
>> I "wish" to not load the or even install the nouveau driver by default.
>> I want to use the NVIDIA binary driver.
>>
>> I have tried a number of things:
>>
>> 1) in my kickstart package section add the line:
>> -xorg-x11-drv-nouveau
>>
>> This did not work - it was still installed.
>>
>> 2) use the nvidia installer and it asks to create a modprobe.conf file
>> to blacklist
>> the driver. I said yes thats what I want. I verified the file being
>> present and rebooted.
>> The driver is still loaded "lsmod | grep nou" still showed it present.
>>
>> 3) I tried "rpm -e xorg-x11-drv-nouveau --nodeps". This seeming worked
>> however
>> the files for nouveau were still present. find / | grep nouveau showed
>> driver files and more....
>>
>> So - anyone know how to get this off of my machine???
>> I thought the "-" in the kickstart package section would work, but no.
>>
>> Thanks so much for any thoughts.
>>
>> jerry
>
>
> From elrepo.org,
>
> yum install kmod-nvidia
>
> will take care of everything for you, and because it's a kABI-tracking
> kmod package you won't need to rebuild the kernel module for each kernel
> update, and yum will automatically take care of future nvidia driver
> updates for you too.
>
> A word of warning - there is a bug [1,2] in 6.0 that means installing
> kmod-nvidia from a kickstart file will *fail* so I would advise
> performing your install and then manually installing kmod-nvidia
> immediately afterwards. Alternatively there is a workaround in the
> elrepo bug report [3] should you really want to do this from a kickstart
> script.
>
> Hope that helps.
>
> [1] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=625216
> [2] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=657257
> [3] http://elrepo.org/bugs/view.php?id=98
>
Workaround from elrepo bug report:
>I was able to confirm that adding this line to the post section of the
>kickstart script before installing the modules fixes the problem:
>
>ln -s `awk '{ if ($2 == "/") print $1; }' /etc/fstab` /dev/root
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