Re: Problems 'removing nouveau' in fed 18

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--- Em ter, 20/11/12, Alexander Volovics <a.volovic@xxxxxxxxxx> escreveu:

> De: Alexander Volovics <a.volovic@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Assunto: Problems 'removing nouveau' in fed 18
> Para: test@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Data: Terça-feira, 20 de Novembro de 2012, 9:45
> The standard ways of getting rid of
> the nouveau driver (up to Fed 17)
> do not seem to work anymore in Fed 18:
> 
>   add 'rdblacklist=nouveau' to GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX in
> /etc/default/grub
>   (and/or add 'blacklist nouveau' to
> /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf) and
>   then run grub2-mkconfig and dracut.
> 
> The only way I found to change initramfs with dracut was to
> use
> 'dracut --omit-drivers nouveau' but this does not survive a
> kernel
> update.
> 
> How should this be done in Fed 18 or are there bugs in
> grub2-mkconfig
> and/or dracut. Any special considerations when booting UEFI
> (grub2-efi).
> 
> I need this because I am using 'bbswitch' to shutdown the
> discrete
> nvidia in an optimus laptop (2x longer battery live and
> machine runs
> much cooler).
> 
> [It would be nice to have a working vgaswitcheroo so you do
> not need
>  out-of-tree kernel modules].
> 
> Alexander
>  

You have to create a file like /etc/dracut.conf.d/10-blacklist.conf with

omit_drivers+=" nouveau "

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=873220
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