Linux nvidia driver disable nouveau

How to completely disable Nouveau, as other tutorials aren’t helping? [duplicate]

I’m attempting to install the drivers for my Nvidia GPU by following the steps listed here, but after launching the installer it informs me that I must disable the Nouveau kernel driver before installation can continue (There is also an error message displayed before this stating that the ‘distribution-provided pre-install script failed’, but from what I’ve read in other posts it shouldn’t be a problem to just continue and ignore it?). Anyway, I’ve followed the steps listed here in an attempt to disable the Nouveau driver with no such luck. I’ve run sudoedit /etc/modprobe.d/nvidia-graphics-drivers.conf and populated the file with the given data and saved it, I’ve edited a line within the /etc/default/grub file so that it now reads GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT=»nouveau.blacklist=1 nomodset quiet splash» , and I’ve attempted to install the driver from within tty1 by first disabling gdm3 using sudo service gdm3 stop and then using the command sudo sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-384.69.run . Even after doing all this the same error informing me that Nouveau needs to be disabled appears. I should mention at this point that I used this method of installing the driver once before a few days ago and it worked. For the life of me I can’t remember how I got it to work or why it won’t work this time around. Also this is essentially a completely fresh install of Ubuntu Gnome 16.04 LTS, the only alterations I’ve made so far are the installation of Chromium, Discord, a couple of extensions and I’ve made a few UI changes in the Tweak tool. So, can anyone offer any more advice on how to disable Nouveau? I feel that if I can get this disabled entirely then I’ll be able to install the driver without further issue, but until I can figure this out I can’t currently continue using my system because the default Nouveau driver causes the UI to freeze without reason or warning sporadically. In fact it crashed while I was typing this out, lucky for me Chromium saved what I’d written. Thanks in advance for any help and advice!

You have a much easier and safer way of installing the same driver version by adding the graphical drivers PPA. No need to disable nouveau either

I’ve posted this as a separate question as this is directly related to disabling Nouveau, whereas my other post is asking how else to install the drivers.

It is a bad idea to install driver this way. It is a typical XY problem The drivers should be installed from repos or a PPA. If you have problems with that, you won’t solve them by blacklisting nouveau. It will make things worse.

@Pilot6 — I’ve attempted several times to install the drivers via the PPA, but each time I’m faced with the issue of not being able to see the login page, let alone login in the first place. The tty’s all forcefully back me out every few seconds, meaning it takes twice as long to type anything at all, and the only way to fix this is to purge all nvidia drivers and reboot, leaving me back at square one? Plus as I stated in my post I used the method explained once before and it worked perfectly. The drivers were listed as manually installed, but other than that it was exactly what I wanted?

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Отключение модуля nouveau

Бывает появляется необходимость отключить модуль nouveau , например если необходимо использовать универсальный модуль vesafb или перед установкой проприетарного видео-драйвера NVIDIA.

«nouveau ([nuvo]) — проект по созданию свободных драйверов видеокарт компании nVIDIA с поддержкой ускорения вывода трёхмерной графики. Изначально основан на распространяемом по свободной лицензии, но нечитаемом драйвере «nv» 2D-графики от nVIDIA.»

Если установщик nvidia-installer обнаружит активный драйвер Nouveau, он предложит создать файл настроек modprobe для отключения Nouveau. После чего потребуется перезагрузить компьютер и снова запустить nvidia-installer . Но мы пойдём инным путём и создадим такой файл настроек modprobe вручную.

Можно отредактировать уже имеющийся файл /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf но тогда при обновление системы файл может быть обновлён и изменения будут потеряны.

Поэтому вместо редактирования уже имеющегося файла создадим новый файл, например /etc/modprobe.d/disable-nouveau.conf и впишем в него две строки.

Вне зависимости от того, создаете ли вы новый файл или редактируете имеющийся, в него должны быть добавлены следующие строки:

blacklist nouveau options nouveau modeset=0 

Первая строка запрещает модулю Nouveau уровня ядра автоматически загружаться при загрузке операционной системы. Она не предотвратит загрузку модуля по требованию, как и загрузку модуля сервером Х-интерфейса. Вторая строка запретит драйверу Nouveau осуществлять операции смены видеорежима через ядро.

Просто копируйте команды ниже, вставьте их в терминале (для тех кто вдруг ещё не знает, это тот который открывается после одновременного нажатия CTRL+ALT+T) и нажмите ENTER, а когда попросит ввести пароль сделайте это.

sudo echo “blacklist nouveau” &;gt; /etc/modprobe.d/disable-nouveau.conf sudo echo “options nouveau modeset=0” &;gt;&;gt; /etc/modprobe.d/disable-nouveau.conf reboot 

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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.

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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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Disabling Nouveau Drivers in RHEL 8

Somehow I’ve stumbled into needing a few GPUs to do some data computation and pixel streaming workloads. So I slapped a few nVidia GPUs in my EPYC system, even though as an AMD/Radeon fan it felt like sacrilege…

This EPYC system runs RHEL 8.3 and now has a Quadro RTX 4000 and M40 card — the system sees them via lspci | grep -i nvidia but before I can use them, evidently EVEN with containers, I need to install some drivers…might be able to containerize the driver and do some funny stuff, that’s probably how the OpenShift operator works…anywho…let’s do this all the hard way!

DISCLAIMER!

This will hella void your RHEL system’s supportability. If that’s something you care about then probably don’t do this, and open a support ticket with Red Hat for guidance to drive more interest around supporting this sort of thing directly.

Get rid of the Nouveau fangled stuff

Because nVidia is a toxic company and doesn’t want to support Linux properly, the open-source community has created a set of drivers called Nouveau that can do most things outside of 3D rendering and advanced GPU stuffs, and the nVidia Drivers don’t like sitting next to the Nouveau drivers so one of them has to go.

1. Modify GRUB parameters

Edit the /etc/default/grub file and append the following to the GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX line: modprobe.blacklist=nouveau

The line should look something like this:

GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="crashkernel=auto resume=/dev/mapper/rhel-swap rd.lvm.lv=rhel/root rd.lvm.lv=rhel/swap rhgb quiet modprobe.blacklist=nouveau"

2. Create Modprobe Denylist dynamic config

Run the following command which will add another play to deny Nouveau’s kernel module from loading:

echo "blacklist nouveau" > /etc/modprobe.d/denylist.conf echo "options nouveau modeset=0" >> /etc/modprobe.d/denylist.conf

One of these days we’ll get better language adopted in core Linux systems…

3. Set the default boot target to text-mode [If running Server w/ GUI]

To avoid driver issues with X being loaded, let’s just set the boot target level to text mode instead of a graphical login:

sudo systemctl set-default multi-user.target

You can switch this back to a GUI later with: systemctl set-default graphical.target

4. Regenerate Kernel InitRAMFS

Run the following to rebuild your initramfs:

5. Rebuild GRUB

Rebuild the GRUB2 configuration file by running the grub2-mkconfig -o command as follows, depending on how your system boots/was installed:

• On BIOS-based machines: grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/grub2/grub.cfg
• On UEFI-based machines: grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/efi/EFI/redhat/grub.cfg

If you’re on a BIOS-based machine, you won’t have any files located in /boot/efi/EFI/redhat/

6. Reboot

At this point you can continue to install NVidia drivers!

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