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

[Nicolas Chauvet]

2009/12/3 Neal Becker <ndbecker2 at gmail.com>:
> On Thursday 03 December 2009, Adam Williamson wrote:
>> 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/nouvea
>> u.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.
>>
>
> [nbecker at nbecker1 jupiter]$ lsinitrd
> /boot/initramfs-2.6.31.6-145.fc12.x86_64.img  | grep nouveau
> -rw-r--r--   1 root     root          185 Nov  3 17:13
> etc/modprobe.d/blacklist-nouveau.conf
> -rwxr-xr-x   1 root     root        20256 Nov  4 22:14
> usr/lib64/libdrm_nouveau.so.1.0.0
> lrwxrwxrwx   1 root     root           34 Dec  1 14:16
> usr/lib64/libdrm_nouveau.so.1 -> /usr/lib64/libdrm_nouveau.so.1.0.0
> drwxr-xr-x   2 root     root            0 Dec  1 14:16
> lib/modules/2.6.31.6-145.fc12.x86_64/kernel/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau
> -rwxr--r--   1 root     root       714040 Dec  1 14:16
> lib/modules/2.6.31.6-145.fc12.x86_64/kernel/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau.ko
> init
>
> [nbecker at nbecker1 jupiter]$ uname -r
> 2.6.31.6-145.fc12.x86_64
On usual initramfs generated after nvidia drivers got installed:
$ lsinitrd /boot/initramfs-2.6.31.6-145.fc12.i686.img |grep blacklist
-rw-r--r--   1 root     root          845 Jul 26 13:04
etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf
-rw-r--r--   1 root     root          185 Nov 14 22:34
etc/modprobe.d/blacklist-nouveau.conf
$ lsinitrd /boot/initramfs-2.6.31.6-145.fc12.i686.img |grep nouveau
-rwxr-xr-x   1 root     root        18828 Nov  5 04:14
usr/lib/libdrm_nouveau.so.1.0.0
lrwxrwxrwx   1 root     root           32 Dec  3 20:37
usr/lib/libdrm_nouveau.so.1 -> /usr/lib/libdrm_nouveau.so.1.0.0
-rw-r--r--   1 root     root          185 Nov 14 22:34
etc/modprobe.d/blacklist-nouveau.conf
drwxr-xr-x   2 root     root            0 Dec  3 20:38
lib/modules/2.6.31.6-145.fc12.i686/kernel/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau
-rwxr--r--   1 root     root       573968 Dec  3 20:38
lib/modules/2.6.31.6-145.fc12.i686/kernel/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau.ko
init
So nouveau remains present in the initramfs despite been de-activated
automatically by the blacklist-nouveau.conf ?!
I expected nouveau not to be present in the initrd for the F-11 case
once blacklist-nouveau.conf is present.

Nicolas (kwizart)