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Current RHEL and Fedora distributions ship with Nouveau as the default driver for NVIDIA GPUs. This is fine, but Nouveau's KMS presents challenges to users who choose to use the NVIDIA driver instead.

Newer versions of the NVIDIA X driver installer will attempt to disable Nouveau automatically at install time, but the actions that the installer takes have no effect if Nouveau is present in the initrd, as it is on RHEL and Fedora systems. In the past we have asked if Red Hat would be willing to provide a hook script that the NVIDIA installer would run, either to build a new initrd image which includes the configuration directives added by the NVIDIA installer to disable Nouveau, or to add parameters to the bootloader configuration to suppress Nouveau in the initrd.

We would like either to revisit the proposed distribution hook scripts, or to discuss what the best next steps would be to help customers who choose to use Red Hat operating systems and the NVIDIA driver together have a smooth experience. Presently, we have a section in the driver README that discusses Nouveau; please see section 8.1 "Interaction with the Nouveau driver" in chapter 8, "Common Problems" of the README:

ftp://download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86/260.19.29/README/commonproblems.html

Hello,
This is documentation in:
https://access.redhat.com/kb/docs/DOC-44775

Thank You
Joe Kachuck

Created attachment 503313 [details]
DOC-44775.pdf

Hello,
This kbase on this issue should now be public:
https://access.redhat.com/kb/docs/DOC-44775

Thank You
Joe Kachuck

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