<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jun 27, 2016 at 10:02 AM, Dave Pawson <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dave.pawson@gmail.com" target="_blank">dave.pawson@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div class=""><div class="h5">On 27 June 2016 at 17:28, Gabe Rubin <<a href="mailto:gaberubin@gmail.com">gaberubin@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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> On Sun, Jun 26, 2016 at 11:53 PM, Dave Pawson <<a href="mailto:dave.pawson@gmail.com">dave.pawson@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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>> With my problem (update rather than new system), Xorg log shows<br>
>> similar oddities (my view)<br>
>> E.g.<br>
>> LoadModule "nouveau"<br>
>> Loading /usr..... /nouveau_drv.so<br>
>> ...<br>
>> LoadModule "nv" # is this the Nvidia module????<br>
>> Warning, couldn't open module nv<br>
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>> Failed to load module "nv" (module does not exist, 0)<br>
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>> regards<br>
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>> On 27 June 2016 at 01:14, Robin Laing <<a href="mailto:MeSat@telusplanet.net">MeSat@telusplanet.net</a>> wrote:<br>
>> > Hello,<br>
>> ><br>
>> > A new machine and I have installed the rpmfusion nVidia akmods but xorg<br>
>> > is<br>
>> > trying to load module "nv", not "nvidia" according the Xorg.0.log.<br>
>> ><br>
>> > Where could the system be trying to load the nv driver instead of the<br>
>> > nvidia<br>
>> > driver?<br>
>> ><br>
>> > nvidia-xorg.conf exists<br>
>> ><br>
>> > 99-nvidia.conf exists and points to the correct module directories.<br>
>> ><br>
>> > This may be the issue.<br>
>> ><br>
>> > modprobe: modprobe: ERROR: could not insert 'nvidia': Required key not<br>
>> > available<br>
>> ><br>
>> > How do I add a key to nvidia to load the module?<br>
>> ><br>
>> > I need secure boot configured on this machine for Windows 10 and gaming<br>
>> > as<br>
>> > it is not my computer and will be configured as dual boot.<br>
>> ><br>
>> > Robin<br>
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> You need to blacklist the nouvea driver. There are instructions on how to<br>
> do this online.<br>
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</div></div>"Online"? A rather big place - and why can't the install do this?<br>
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<br><br></div></div></blockquote><div>Here is a guide (not the one I used, it has been several years since I had to do this): <a href="https://ask.fedoraproject.org/en/question/66187/how-to-disable-nouveau-and-install-nvidia/">https://ask.fedoraproject.org/en/question/66187/how-to-disable-nouveau-and-install-nvidia/</a><br><br></div><div>The nouveau driver is built into the kernel, so you need to blacklist it on startup using your bootloader. If it loads, you can't load another driver. I believe it was done this way to have some functioning (and open source) nvidia driver out the box. <br></div></div><br></div></div>