nvidiafb

farslayer · 04-07-2009, 12:54 PM

So is there any way to prevent the nvidia frame buffer from loading at boot short of recompiling the kernel ? For some bizarre reason nvidiafb has started loading on my system at boot time, so the nvidia proprietary drivers will no longer work.

I've tried blacklisting nvidiafb

/etc/modprobe.d/blacklist

Code:

blacklist nvidiafb

I've tried disabling it in the boot menu

/boot/grub/menu.list

Code:

defoptions= nosplash nofb

kernel		/vmlinuz-2.6.26-1-686 root=/dev/sda2 ro  vga=normal

It's ignoring all these commands and loading nvidiafb anyway.

is there something I have missed ?

Code:

default@debianetch:~$ apt-cache policy linux-image-2.6.26-1-686
linux-image-2.6.26-1-686:
  Installed: 2.6.26-13lenny2

That should really not be enabled in the kernel by default, or at the very least it should respect being blacklisted or told not to load.

the trooper · 04-07-2009, 02:43 PM

Hello Farslayer,
Not sure if you have seen this link,but check the 7th post down...

http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=96826

Looks like a possible solution.

Regards.
The trooper

farslayer · 04-07-2009, 04:47 PM

Well I finally caved and recompiled the kernel without nvidiafb support and I'm back up and running.

I'm running the same system I've had since I first installed Sarge on it (OK so I upgraded the Geforce 4800 to a 6800 a couple years ago) and I've NEVER had an issue using the nvidia proprietary drivers before on this box with Sarge, Etch or Lenny until yesterday. I've never needed to worry about trying to blacklisit the nvidiafb module, nor have I had to compile a kernel without fb support to get the nvidia drivers to install..

This is just bizarre.

Thanks for the suggestion but it just seemed to ignore those changes to the menu.lst file and load the darned module anyway.

farslayer · 05-28-2009, 06:19 PM

Updated my kernel and fell right back into this hole.. but I found the Debian wiki page on module blacklisting and the correct way to do it, unlike my failed attempt in the first post in this thread..

http://wiki.debian.org/KernelModuleBlacklisting

1. Delete the /etc/modprobe.conf file (This will NOT work if this file exists. I skipped this step the first time around and I can verify this)
2. Create a file '/etc/modprobe.d/<modulename>' containing 'blacklist <modulename>'. (in my case modulename = nvidiafb)
3. run 'depmod -ae' as root
4. Recreate your initrd with 'update-initramfs -u'

Installed the Nvidia driver and everything is working again. No kernel recompile needed this time around, yeah !!