Blacklisting Nouveau

[Paul W. Frields]

On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 08:08:29AM -0500, Matthew Saltzman wrote:
> On Thu, 2010-01-28 at 17:23 +1100, Chris Smart wrote: 
> > 2010/1/28 Neal Becker <ndbecker2 at gmail.com>:
> > 
> > >
> > > You don't need to re-run dracut.  All you need to do is add this the the
> > > kernel command line:
> > >  rdblacklist=nouveau
> > >
> > 
> > This is completely unnecessary. The module has been black listed and
> > all future kernel updates will exclude the module. The problem is that
> > the current initramfs was not re-built when installing the nvidia
> > driver (which it probably should do after blacklisting the module).
> > 
> > > This is much simpler than other solutions.
> > 
> > It's simpler than running a single dracut command? 
> 
> Sure.  Once you've done it, it propagates to new kernels.
> 
> > Even if you think
> > that it is, it's more _correct_ to re-build the initramfs.
> 
> That's probably true.  That should be in the RPMfusion packaging,
> though.

Rebuilding an initial ramdisk is sufficiently intrusive that perhaps
the RPMFusion maintainers were reticent to just do it automatically --
especially if it might undo other customizations on the user side
without warning.

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