FWIW: I just did the following in RHEL6 thanks to "samkraju". Just want ppl to know that it's relatively the same


on RHEL6 and Fedora 13:
1) Blacklist the nouveau driver: Add below line to /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf file
blacklist nouveau
2) Rebuild the initramfs image file using dracut:
* Backup the initramfs file
$ sudo mv /boot/initramfs-$(uname -r).img /boot/initramfs-$(uname -r).img.bak
* Rebuild the initramfs file
$ sudo dracut -v /boot/initramfs-$(uname -r).img $(uname -r)
3) Reboot the system to runlevel 3 (without graphics) (i.e. I set value in /etc/inittab file to 3 from 5 and rebooted)
4) Check that nouveau driver is not loaded
$ lsmod | grep nouveau

Extras:
** ran system-config-display command to see if a config was OK
** yum -y install kernel-devel and *gcc* (or install these some other way)

5) Run the NVidia driver package
$ sudo ./NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-195.36.15-pkg2.run
Above command will create xorg.conf file in /etc/X11 directory which is responsible to use NVidia driver in X.
6) Restart the system and NVidia driver will be used now. (i.e. I set value in /etc/inittab file to 5 from 3 and rebooted)


My point in doing this was to enable desktop effects .. woot!

I have done ALL of these instructions in several different ways. Each time I disable/blacklist the Nouveau driver I get a black screen. I am unable to install the NVDIA drivers with a black screen.

Can someone please tell me how to disable the nouveau drivers and still get a command prompt to install the NVIDA driver?

Are you using Ubuntu? If so, then see my post #4 on the first page of this thread: http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...2/#post4062945

I tried that already. Once completed, I received a black screen. I am installing this on Backtrack 5.

First check your /etc/X11/xorg.conf file. In the device section it should list the driver as "nvidia".
To disable nouveau try adding blacklist nouveau to the /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf file. You chould be able to do this from recovery mode assuming that Backtrack 5 has a recovery mode like Ubuntu does. Then reboot and see if you can get to the desktop.
If blacklisting nouveau alone does not help, try also adding these to /etc/X11/xorg.conf, each on a separate line:
See this for reference: http://www.ubuntugeek.com/howto-inst...ucid-lynx.html