Disabling the Nouveau Driver

Procedure

1. Use PuTTY to log in to the server as the root user.

2. Disable the Nouveau driver.

   vim /etc/modprobe.d/disable-nouveau.conf

   Add the following two lines at the beginning of the file:

   blacklist nouveau
   options nouveau modeset=0

3. Back up the initramfs file and create a new one.

   cp /boot/initramfs-$(uname -r).img /boot/initramfs-$(uname -r)-nouveau.img

   dracut -f /boot/initramfs-$(uname -r).img $(uname -r)

4. Restart the server.

   reboot