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(@ouaille_aime_scier)
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Hi Silvan,

Is it something specially to do to install NVidia drivers (xorg-drv-video-nvidia) as blacklisting nouveau and/or loading NVidia module ?

I don't know if I have to write to /etc/modules-load/ or /etc/modprobe.d/ or in /usr/lib/... directories.

And when kernel upgrading do I have to do something in particular (resintalling drivers for the new kernel or use dkms ?)

Thanks in advance.


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Hi ouaille_aime_scier,

the nvidia.ko module from xorg-drv-video-nvidia is built and maintained by dkms for kernel updates.

The rpm also blacklists the nouveau driver providing the file /usr/lib/modprobe.d/nvidia.conf.

Unfortunately I don't have a PC to test with nvidia as primary controller, so I'm not sure if it will work or require something else, like explicit module loading and a configuration fragment in /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d. Years ago nvidia driver needed to be run without "nomodeset", current driver claims to support modesetting but this is a situation I could not test.

If you feel skilled enough to operate on the system even if you get black screen at boot you may want to test and in case of problems I can try to give you support to make it work for you and possibly future openmamba users. In case of black screen providing the content of the file /var/log/Xorg.0.log may help.

Thanks.


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(@ouaille_aime_scier)
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Thanks Silvan,
I have installed the xorg-drv-video-nvidia package, removed the xorg-drv-video-nouveau one, the /usr/lib/modoprobe.d/nvidia.conf has effectively blacklisted nouveau driver.
I got black screen after booting and my Xorg.0.log shows segmentation fault with libc and nouveau/dri. I will post the file later.


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Hi, if you still get errors related to nouveau you may need to recreate the initramfs with:
sudo mkinitrd -f


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(@ouaille_aime_scier)
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Hello Silvan,

I hae recreated the initramfs with mkinitrd command but without success.

I attach my Xorg.0.log here https://pastebin.com/1qK7h3zh


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