2012/11/20 Sergio <sergiocmailbox-users@xxxxxxxxxxxx>: > > > --- 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 " This is only a workaround, the root cause is that rd.driver.blacklist does not function.. > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=873220 And this is the proposed patch: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel.initramfs/2971 I may not implement the workaround for the proprietary driver that use the rd.driver.blacklist function. But more likely break with a describing message if a user install the package with an unfixed dracut, so everyone fix the problem in the right way. Nicolas (kwizart) -- test mailing list test@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/test
