Feature changed by: nick skeen (ns89) Feature #310449, revision 6 Title: A simple way to turn off nouveau openSUSE-11.4: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Desirable Requested by: nick skeen (ns89) Description: With OpenSUSE11.3 nouveau is used be default. In order to turn it off you must add nomodeset to the kernel parameters in /boot/grub/menu.lst and turn on no_kms_in_intrid in the sysconfig editor. So why not add a simple option on the sysconfig editor to do both? Discussion: #1: nick skeen (ns89) (2010-09-05 02:35:58) There are better steps on how to disable it here: http://www.suse.de/~sndirsch/nvidia-installer-HOWTO.html#1 #2: Jon Nelson (jnelson-suse) (2010-09-06 15:48:27) (reply to #1) That link doesn't contain instructions for how to disable nouveau except that they are buried within instructions for how to install the proprietary NVidia module. If you want to disable it, you don't need the no_kms_in_initrd thing at all. Just use nomodeset (which you should add to /etc/sysconfig/bootloader as well). Having more than one way to do something frequently leads to all sorts of problems. Have one well documented way. Using nomodeset should prevent the module from loading entirely. + #3: nick skeen (ns89) (2010-09-10 08:58:06) (reply to #2) + That's just the way I was shown to disable it, I'm sure there is many + ways to do it. + And the reason I posted that link is because most, but not all users + who disable nouveau are doing so to use the proprietary driver. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/310449