Suggestion to simplify initial kmod-nvidia install (w/script correction)

[Adam Williamson]

On Thu, 2009-12-03 at 07:32 -0500, Neal Becker wrote:

> To be sure, this procedure could be retested on a new install, since I can't 
> prove that it isn't the initramfs caused by a kernel update that makes it work 
> here.

It's not too hard to check:

[root at adam shapefile]# lsinitrd /boot/initramfs-2.6.31.6-145.fc12.x86_64.img  | grep nouveau
drwxr-xr-x   2 root     root            0 Nov 26 09:44 lib/modules/2.6.31.6-145.fc12.x86_64/kernel/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau
-rwxr--r--   1 root     root       714040 Nov 26 09:44 lib/modules/2.6.31.6-145.fc12.x86_64/kernel/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau.ko
lrwxrwxrwx   1 root     root           34 Nov 26 09:44 usr/lib64/libdrm_nouveau.so.1 -> /usr/lib64/libdrm_nouveau.so.1.0.0
-rwxr-xr-x   1 root     root        20256 Nov 19 16:45 usr/lib64/libdrm_nouveau.so.1.0.0
init

i.e., use lsinitrd to see if your initramfs actually has a nouveau
module in it. also, boot without the rdblacklist parameter and see if
nouveau gets loaded.

-- 
adamw