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Cinder

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Registered: 2008-08-17

Posts: 30

[SOLVED] Ended up with nouveaufb after pacman -Syu

Hi,

I've ran a system upgrade earlier today and ended up with nouveaufb being loaded during boot. I had the nvidia drivers installed and having the nouveau module being loaded on boot prevents the X server from starting.

The nouveau driver is blacklisted in /etc/modprobe.d/nouveau_blacklist.conf

I have also tried blacklisting nouveaufb, but with no success.

How can I get rid of nouveau? pacman -Q | grep nouveau shows nothing. Did it come pre-compiled in the latest kernel build?

Thanks

Last edited by Cinder (2010-11-01 13:34:32)

Cinder

Member

Registered: 2008-08-17

Posts: 30

Re: [SOLVED] Ended up with nouveaufb after pacman -Syu

Ok I found out what was wrong. Somehow I ended up with MODULES="nouveau" in /etc/mkinitcpio.conf when the new kernel was built. That's strange, because I don't have any nouveau package installed.

I removed the nouveau line removed and rebuilt the image.

Problem solved.