My Fedora 18 can't load NVIDIA driver

[Sérgio Basto]

On Qua, 2013-01-16 at 16:28 +0100, Ismael Olea wrote: 
> 
> 
> Hi:
> 
> 
> I've just updated from F17 to F18 and found my system can't load the
> kernel nvidia driver. For some reason I can't blacklist nouveau:
> 
> 
>         # lsmod| egrep "(nvidia|nouveau)" 
>         nouveau               817579  2  
>         mxm_wmi                12762  1 nouveau 
>         video                  18552  1 nouveau 
>         i2c_algo_bit           13066  1 nouveau 
>         drm_kms_helper         43551  1 nouveau 
>         ttm                    62706  1 nouveau 
>         drm                   216715  4 ttm,drm_kms_helper,nouveau 
>         i2c_core               28450  6
>         drm,drm_kms_helper,i2c_algo_bit,nouveau,i2c_nforce2,videodev 
>         wmi                    18274  2 mxm_wmi,nouveau 
>         
>         
> but it's configured:
>         [root at azofaifo ~]# cat /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist-nouveau.conf 
>         # RPM Fusion blacklist for nouveau driver - you need to run as
>         root: 
>         # dracut -f /boot/initramfs-$(uname -r).img $(uname -r) 
>         # if nouveau is loaded despite this file. 
>         blacklist nouveau 
> 
> 
> I redid the initramfs with dracut but still happens.
> 
> 
> If it's useful I upgraded using fedup.
> 
> 
> My config:
>         rpm -qa|grep -i nvidia|grep fc18 
>         xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-libs-304.64-3.fc18.i686 
>         kmod-nvidia-3.7.2-201.fc18.i686-304.64-2.fc18.2.i686 
>         nvidia-settings-1.0-26.fc18.i686 
>         xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-304.64-3.fc18.i686 
>         kmod-nvidia-304.64-2.fc18.2.i686 
>         nvidia-xconfig-1.0-25.fc18.i686 
>         
>         
>         [root at azofaifo ~]# uname -r 
>         3.7.2-201.fc18.i686 
> 
> 
> Is it just me?
> 
No, see 
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=873220

as a quick fix 
cp /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist-nouveau.conf /usr/lib/modprobe.d/
and do all again , 
-- 
Sérgio M. B.