[Mageia-discuss] alpha: how do you get rid of nouveau?

[Kevin Bulgrien]

blind Pete <0123peter at gmail.com> wrote:

>My test computer has an old nVidia card in it.  
>
>Mageia 3 alpha installs quite happily on it, but 
>it won't boot to a GUI.  It gives error messages 
>about nouveau, even though the modules has been 
>deleted and XFdrake run to try "nv" then "vesa".  
>
>BTW there is also an EDID check sum error from 
>the monitor which could be confusing things.  
>
>There is a repeat of 8 lines of hex data and
>[drm] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: DDC responded, but no EDID for VGA-1 
>
>-- 
>blind Pete
>Sig goes here...  

I only solved this after modding my init-rd:

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/fedora-35/fedora-12-nouveau-nvidia-driver-solution-771248/

Later I realized I could force uninstall all the rpms that had to do with nouveau even though urpme wouldn't let me do it.

I think I still had to mod initrd even though the rpms with the stuff were gone, but I'm not 100% sure.

I could not compile a real nVidia for old TNT2 cards and got no sympathy from the nvidia forums.  I used nv but its opengl was slow and I found a cheap newer card somewhere.

My experience was with 2.

Kbulgrien

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