Disabling the Nouveau Driver

Procedure

1. Use PuTTY to log in to the server as the root user.
2. Check whether the Nouveau driver is disabled.

   lsmod |grep nouveau

   • If a command output is displayed, the Nouveau driver is not disabled. In this case, perform 3.
   • If no command output is displayed, the Nouveau driver is disabled. No further action is required.
3. Disable the Nouveau driver.
   1. Create a disable-nouveau.conf file.

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

   2. Press i to enter the insert mode and add the following content:

      blacklist nouveau
      options nouveau modeset=0

   3. Press Esc, type :wq!, and press Enter to save the file and exit.
4. 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)

5. Restart the server.

   reboot