Need advice with disabling nouveau drivers in Ubuntu 18.04...
by Mike_Walsh from LinuxQuestions.org on (#55E9M)
Hallo, guys.
To set the scene, I'm primarily a "Puppy" user. "Boo!", I hear y'all say. However, this ain't SO far out, since many Pups are based around Ubuntu infrastructure.....though in a different way to most re-spins.
For my sins, I'm part of the moderation team over at BleepingComputer. Currently, I'm trying to help one of our members out with a graphics issue.....who runs "Bionic Beaver". Now, I've only recently started using a discrete GPU for the first time myself, though I've seen mention of a lot of this stuff before.
To the meat of the matter:- The member in question is finding that every time the Software Updater installs updates, and he allows it to re-boot the system, his screen is coming up in low resolution. His workaround is to go into the Software & Updates Additional Drivers tab, and re-apply the driver, followed by a re-boot. I'm assuming the Nvidia drivers are getting ignored due to a conflict with the existing nouveau drivers. So:-
I advised him to add
Code:blacklist nouveau
blacklist lbm-nouveau
options nouveau modeset=0
alias nouveau off
alias lbm-nouveau off....to /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf, following advice from a fellow Ubuntu user. It's worked a couple of times for him, but now he's back to the "old" behaviour again.
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I'm guessing here now. Bear in mind that I don't run a traditional "mainstream" distro at all, and Puppy doesn't use GRUB2, but rather the updated/currently patched version of Grub4DOS that's maintained & modified, specially for Puppy, by the Woof-CE team over at GitHub.
I have a sneaking suspicion that the only way round this, permanently, will be to modify GRUB2 to add something like
Code:nouveau.modeset=0....or something similar, to the GRUB2 kernel line. And since I don't use GRUB2, or even particularly like it (I learned to hate it when running Ubuntu myself several years ago), I'm swallowing my pride and asking you guys....
....How do we do this? Any constructive advice would be appreciated.
TIA.
Mike :hattip:
To set the scene, I'm primarily a "Puppy" user. "Boo!", I hear y'all say. However, this ain't SO far out, since many Pups are based around Ubuntu infrastructure.....though in a different way to most re-spins.
For my sins, I'm part of the moderation team over at BleepingComputer. Currently, I'm trying to help one of our members out with a graphics issue.....who runs "Bionic Beaver". Now, I've only recently started using a discrete GPU for the first time myself, though I've seen mention of a lot of this stuff before.
To the meat of the matter:- The member in question is finding that every time the Software Updater installs updates, and he allows it to re-boot the system, his screen is coming up in low resolution. His workaround is to go into the Software & Updates Additional Drivers tab, and re-apply the driver, followed by a re-boot. I'm assuming the Nvidia drivers are getting ignored due to a conflict with the existing nouveau drivers. So:-
I advised him to add
Code:blacklist nouveau
blacklist lbm-nouveau
options nouveau modeset=0
alias nouveau off
alias lbm-nouveau off....to /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf, following advice from a fellow Ubuntu user. It's worked a couple of times for him, but now he's back to the "old" behaviour again.
--------------------------------
I'm guessing here now. Bear in mind that I don't run a traditional "mainstream" distro at all, and Puppy doesn't use GRUB2, but rather the updated/currently patched version of Grub4DOS that's maintained & modified, specially for Puppy, by the Woof-CE team over at GitHub.
I have a sneaking suspicion that the only way round this, permanently, will be to modify GRUB2 to add something like
Code:nouveau.modeset=0....or something similar, to the GRUB2 kernel line. And since I don't use GRUB2, or even particularly like it (I learned to hate it when running Ubuntu myself several years ago), I'm swallowing my pride and asking you guys....
....How do we do this? Any constructive advice would be appreciated.
TIA.
Mike :hattip: