How to Disable the Nouveau Driver for Different Linux Systems
Fedora
- Create the /usr/lib/modprobe.d/blacklist-nouveau.conf file and add the following information to the file.
blacklist nouveau
options nouveau modeset=0
- Re-generate initramfs.
$sudo dracut --force
RHEL/CentOS
- Create the /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist-nouveau.conf file and add the following information to the file.
blacklist nouveau
options nouveau modeset=0
- Re-generate initramfs.
$sudo dracut --force
OpenSUSE
- Create the /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist-nouveau.conf file and add the following information to the file.
blacklist nouveau
options nouveau modeset=0
- Re-generate initrd.
$sudo /sbin/mkinitrd
SLES
The Nouveau driver is not installed in SLES.
Ubuntu
- Create the /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist-nouveau.conf file and add the following information to the file.
blacklist nouveau
options nouveau modeset=0
- Re-generate initramfs.
$sudo update-initramfs -u