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

[Neal Becker]

On Wednesday 02 December 2009, Nicolas Chauvet wrote:
> 2009/12/2 Adam Williamson <adamwill at shaw.ca>:
> > On Sun, 2009-11-29 at 22:52 +0100, Nicolas Chauvet wrote:
> >> > Isn't adding rdblacklist=nouveau to grub.conf less intrusive?
> >>
> >> not, the nouveau kms remains loaded and leave things in the unsafe
> >> random side. That might work for your hardware/usage , it will not work
> >> for others... So that's even do not worth to be documented.
> >
> > Are you sure? The combination of rdblacklist kernel parameter and
> > blacklist directive in /etc/modprobe.d should prevent the module being
> > loaded at all even if it's present in the initramfs. Have you tried
> > rdblacklist? It's a dracut parameter which should prevent the module
> > specified from being loaded from the initramfs.
> 
> I'm not sure at all, nor have done tests. But I think I saw that
> nouveau still remain loaded. if other options are used on the grub
> line.
> Having the nouveau.ko still present in the initramfs leave things in
> the unsafe side for those who only want to use nvidia. But on the
> other hand, if only rdblacklist=nouveau,radeon is needed to prevent
> conflicts with closed source drivers and to avoid to rebuild the
> initramfs, that will help.
> 
> Then using /etc/modprobe.d/ for blacklist or not can be deceided if
> users want to keep the capability to switch between FOSS or closed
> drivers. (so KMS drivers could be enabled by a grub, entry duplicated
> for each given kernel).
> 
I can confirm that nouveau is not loaded using rdblacklist.