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Re: Kernel update includes nouveau module that clobbers nVidia drivers



On 2010-06-17 00:35 +0200, AG wrote:

> Since the last testing update I have rebooted and found myself being
> ensnarled in what seems to be a kernel issue, whereby a module
> "nouveau" by default seizes control of the graphics card which
> prevents the nVidia driver from loading.

If you had installed the Nvidia driver the Debian way, this would not
have happened, because the nvidia-kernel-common package blacklists the
nouveau module which is the recommended way to prevent it from loading.
See modprobe.conf(5).

Sven


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