Hi Everyone,
Please facilitate assistance on how to disable the nouveau driver in order to install an nvidia driver.
I have not been successful in finding a step by step process on how to get this done. I did a few searches online and found some article, but after trying many of them I am back here to see if someone how this done correctly.
I am running latest 8.4 code released.
You want to try ELRepo’s kmod-nvidia package. It will disable the nouveau driver as part of the installation process. Look in:
and
for details.
I followed a recipe provided elsewhere on this forum (tip of the hat to @Ritov) that worked just fine for me:
- In
/etc/default/grub
, add the following phrase to the value of GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX
:module_blacklist=nouveau
- Create
/etc/modprobe.d/nouveau.conf
and add the following line:blacklist nouveau
- Rebuild modules
depmod -a
- Rebuild your grub config:
grub2-mkconfig --output=/boot/efi/EFI/rocky/grub.cfg
I did all the above from a shell with root privileges.
I had no further issues or complaints from nouveau or my nVidia card after doing this.
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