NVIDIA the hard way question

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For a long time (about 10 years) I had been installing the NVIDIA driver ‘the hard way’ by compiling it against the kernel modules, every time a kernel update had taken place.
These were the steps:

  • install driver (running the script supplied by NVIDIA);
  • use the command mkinitrd;
  • reboot.

Later, I made a habit of it to use the NVIDIA repository.
But now I do it the hard way again (it was advised to do so for playing a game).
To be succesful, I have to take one step more than I did before:
after the reboot, the kernel line in the grub menu is edited by inserting ‘nouveau.modetset=0’ in it.
To make it permanent, I can use the command:

sudo grubby --update-kernel=ALL --args=“nouveau.modeset=0”

My question is why the old way to do things (rebooting after the mkinitrd command) does not work anymore.

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Hi
The only reason to run mkinitrd is to blacklist the noveau driver assuming there is a blacklist file present…


cat /etc/modprobe.d/50-nvidia.conf
blacklist nouveau

Is this file present?

I haven’t had to add “nouveau.modeset=0” maybe it’s something to do with grubby?

I don’t run mkinitrd when there is a kernel update, once the blacklist file is added, then on subsequent kernel updates it’s take care of.

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File /etc/modprobe.d/50-nvidia.conf is not present.

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Does this gives anything back:

grep -i 'blacklist nouveau' /etc/modprobe.d/*
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ll /etc/modprobe.d/ gave:

total 76
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 mei 16 21:16 .
drwxr-xr-x 137 root root 12288 mei 20 12:42 …
-rw-r–r-- 1 root root 3647 dec 19 10:16 00-system.conf
-rw-r–r-- 1 root root 1184 nov 7 2018 10-unsupported-modules.conf
-rw-r–r-- 1 root root 181 okt 30 2018 50-alsa.conf
-rw-r–r-- 1 root root 5009 jun 11 2018 50-blacklist.conf
-rw-r–r-- 1 root root 128 apr 2 14:14 50-bluetooth.conf
-rw-r–r-- 1 root root 33 feb 19 2018 50-ipw2200.conf
-rw-r–r-- 1 root root 34 feb 19 2018 50-iwl3945.conf
-rw-r–r-- 1 root root 551 mei 12 2018 50-libmlx4.conf
-rw-r–r-- 1 root root 18 feb 19 2018 50-prism54.conf
-rw-r–r-- 1 root root 0 mei 4 22:37 50-yast.conf
-rw-r–r-- 1 root root 47 nov 7 2018 99-local.conf
-rw-r–r-- 1 root root 158 mrt 25 17:35 firewalld-sysctls.conf
-rw-r–r-- 1 root root 1004 mrt 13 2018 mlx4.conf
-rw-r–r-- 1 root root 88 mei 12 2018 truescale.conf
-rw-r–r-- 1 root root 673 apr 26 2017 tuned.conf

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Nothing came out.

ll /etc/modprobe.d/ gave this:

total 76
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 mei 16 21:16 .
drwxr-xr-x 137 root root 12288 mei 20 12:42 …
-rw-r–r-- 1 root root 3647 dec 19 10:16 00-system.conf
-rw-r–r-- 1 root root 1184 nov 7 2018 10-unsupported-modules.conf
-rw-r–r-- 1 root root 181 okt 30 2018 50-alsa.conf
-rw-r–r-- 1 root root 5009 jun 11 2018 50-blacklist.conf
-rw-r–r-- 1 root root 128 apr 2 14:14 50-bluetooth.conf
-rw-r–r-- 1 root root 33 feb 19 2018 50-ipw2200.conf
-rw-r–r-- 1 root root 34 feb 19 2018 50-iwl3945.conf
-rw-r–r-- 1 root root 551 mei 12 2018 50-libmlx4.conf
-rw-r–r-- 1 root root 18 feb 19 2018 50-prism54.conf
-rw-r–r-- 1 root root 0 mei 4 22:37 50-yast.conf
-rw-r–r-- 1 root root 47 nov 7 2018 99-local.conf
-rw-r–r-- 1 root root 158 mrt 25 17:35 firewalld-sysctls.conf
-rw-r–r-- 1 root root 1004 mrt 13 2018 mlx4.conf
-rw-r–r-- 1 root root 88 mei 12 2018 truescale.conf
-rw-r–r-- 1 root root 673 apr 26 2017 tuned.conf

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rpm -qa | grep nouveau resulted in:

xf86-video-nouveau-1.0.15-lp150.1.9.x86_64
Mesa-dri-nouveau-18.0.2-lp150.18.3.1.x86_64
libdrm_nouveau2-2.4.91-lp150.1.2.x86_64
libvdpau_nouveau-18.0.2-lp150.18.3.1.x86_64
libdrm_nouveau2-32bit-2.4.91-lp150.1.2.x86_64