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How to disable Nouveau nvidia driver on Ubuntu 18.04 Bionic Beaver Linux

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Blacklist Nvidia nouveau driver

$ sudo bash -c "echo blacklist nouveau > /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist-nvidia-nouveau.conf" $ sudo bash -c "echo options nouveau modeset=0 >> /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist-nvidia-nouveau.conf"

Confirm the content of the new modprobe config file:

$ cat /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist-nvidia-nouveau.conf blacklist nouveau options nouveau modeset=0

Update kernel initramfs

Enter the following linux command to regenerate initramfs:

Reboot

All should be ready now. Reboot your system:

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ERROR: The Nouveau kernel driver is currently in use by your system. This driver is incompatible with the NVIDIA driver, and must be disabled before proceeding. Please consult the NVIDIA driver README and your Linux distribution’s documentation for details on how to correctly disable the Nouveau kernel driver. WARNING: The modprobe configuration file to disable Nouveau, /etc/modprobe.d/nvidia-installer-disable-nouveau.conf, is already present. Please be sure you have rebooted your system since that file was written. If you have rebooted, then Nouveau may be enabled for other reasons, such as being included in the system initial ramdisk or in your X configuration file. Please consult the NVIDIA driver README and your Linux distribution’s documentation for details on how to correctly disable the Nouveau kernel driver. ERROR: Installation has failed. Please see the file ‘/var/log/nvidia-installer.log’ for details. You may find suggestions on fixing installation problems in the README available on the Linux driver download page at www.nvidia.com.

Эта ошибка говорит о том что в настоящее время используется драйвер Nouveau и его нужно отключить для установки драйверов Nvidia.
Чтобы не возникало такой проблемы нужно отключить драйвер на начальном этапе загрузки системы. Для этого если система грузится как здесь Ubuntu 9.10 с флешки добавляем в menu.lst nouveau.modeset=0 после этого наш menu.lst будет выглядеть вот так:

title Start Ubuntu 9.10 from USB DISK
root (cd)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz file=/cdrom/preseed/ubuntu.seed boot=casper noprompt cdrom-detect/try-usb=true persistent nouveau.modeset=0
initrd /boot/initrd.lz
boot

Следущий шаг удаляем все драйвера Nouveau пишем в терминале:

sudo apt-get purge xserver-xorg-video-nouveau

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How to disable Nouveau kernel driver

When installing CUDA in Ubuntu 16.04 by executing cuda_8.0.44_linux.run, I got the following error message in /var/log/nvidia-installer.log Then I checked /etc/modprobe.d/nvidia-installer-disable-nouveau.conf and got Any suggestion to disable Nouveau Kernel Driver? I found this 2012 discussion but didn’t work for me.

2 Answers 2

According to the NVIDIA developer zone: Create a file:

sudo nano /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist-nouveau.conf 

With the following contents:

blacklist nouveau options nouveau modeset=0 

Regenerate the kernel initramfs:

It worked, thanks! BTW, in Arch Environment, the update-initramfs -u is different. You will need to find your kernel preset in /etc/mkinitcpio.d/ (e.g. linux417.preset), and run sudo mkinitcpio -p linux417 , and reboot. All done!

FYI on Fedora, this worked for me! (1) Downloaded the NVIDIA drivers/script for my video card. Executed it. It then generated files in /usr/lib/modprobe.d/nvidia-installer-disable-nouveau.conf and /etc/modprobe.d/nvidia-installer-disable-nouveau.conf with the above contents. (2) Then, I had to run dracut —regenerate-all -f on Fedora as sudo update-initramfs -u does not work on Fedora. (3) Reboot and that’s it!

maybe it is too late ,but hope can help for others. the follow tips worked for ubuntu 16.04 and elementary os 0.4.

remove all nvidia packages ,skip this if your system is fresh installed

sudo apt-get remove nvidia* && sudo apt autoremove 

sudo apt-get install dkms build-essential linux-headers-generic 

sudo vim /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf 

Insert follow lines to the blacklist.conf:

blacklist nouveau blacklist lbm-nouveau options nouveau modeset=0 alias nouveau off alias lbm-nouveau off 

Disable the Kernel nouveau by typing the following commands( nouveau-kms.conf may not exist,it is ok):

echo options nouveau modeset=0 | sudo tee -a /etc/modprobe.d/nouveau-kms.conf 

Is item 4 necessary? It looks to be a repeat of «options nouveau modeset=0» that was added to /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf mentioned in your item 3.

I did this, then CTRL+ALT+F1, sudo service lightdm stop,then was able to run the installer. I don’t know if it was essential to do this, but I did and I was able to run the installer successfully. Thanks!

This just killed my system. After rebooting now i see an endless blackscreen, not even a darn cursor ;(

@revolutionary that’s odd, you must not have a fallback driver. do you have a spare vga monitor anywhere??

well, you can’t undo your changes and rerun sudo update-initramfs -u to re-enable nouveau. I did just that like an idiot and had to reinstall xubuntu because I screwed everything up to where any nvidia driver installation failed. best thing I can recommend for @revolutionary is to grab a vga monitor (lcd, crt, doesn’t matter). that should at least run off the fallback mode and help get you somewhere.

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[Solved] An Error Occurred while Installing the Nvidia Driver: «The Nouveau kernel driver is currently in use by your system. . «

I have installed Nvidia’s driver on my computer to enable deep learning for many times, and I will encounter different problems each time.

But today, I encountered a familiar old problem:

The Nouveau kernel driver is currently in use by your system.

What is «Nouveau»

Before we disable Nouveau Kernel Driver, everyone must be concerned about what Nouveau is? Will disable driver affect the computer?

The following excerpt is from the wikipedia:

nouveau (/nuːˈvoʊ/) is a free and open-source graphics device driver for Nvidia video cards and the Tegra family of SoCs written by independent software engineers, with minor help from Nvidia employees.

Wiki

We can see that Nouveau is a third-party and open source Nvidia driver, and many Linux distributions have this driver installed by default. However, if we download the Nvidia driver from the official website and want to update, we have to close the Nouveau driver first.

However, we don’t have to worry about any bad effects this will cause, after all, we are about to use the official Nvidia driver.

So the conclusion is, don’t worry too much about us banning it.

Disable Nouveau

First we need to create a new file:

sudo vim /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist-nouveau.conf

blacklist nouveau
options nouveau modeset=0

Then we regenerate the kernel and restart:

sudo update-initramfs -u sudo reboot

After restarting, we can use the following command to confirm whether Nouveau has stopped working:

If nothing is printed, then congratulations! You have disabled Nouveau’s kernel driver. Now we can try again to see if we can install Nvidia’s official driver!

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