[ATrpms-users] Adding correct information to /etc/modules.d./ when installing/upgrading nvidia-graphics in Fedora 12 (was: Updated from fedora 10 to 12 and have issues with nvidia driver loading)

[Jeffrey J. Kosowsky]

Paulo Cavalcanti wrote at about 18:56:22 -0200 on Friday, December 18, 2009:
 > On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 6:21 PM, Jeffrey J. Kosowsky <atrpms at kosowsky.org>wrote:
 > 
 > > Paulo Cavalcanti wrote at about 15:40:40 -0200 on Friday, December 4, 2009:
 > >  > ------------------------------------------------------
 > >  >
 > >  > # put nouveau out of the game
 > >  > blacklist nouveau
 > >  > # nvidia kernel module
 > >  > alias char-major-195 nvidia-190_42
 > >  > alias nvidia nvidia-190_42
 > >  >
 > >  > ---------------------------------------------------------
 > >
 > > I tried this and it dutifully created the /etc/modprobe.d/nvidia.conf
 > > file.
 > >
 > > I then regenerated initramfs using:
 > >  dracut -f /boot/initramfs-$(uname -r).img $(uname -r)
 > >
 > > However, the resulting new initramfs didn't include the new
 > > nvidia.conf so of course the nouveau module still loaded and got
 > > locked on boot resulting in nvidia not being able to load.
 > > I also tried doing 'depmod -a' before and after the dracut statement.
 > >
 > > I was able to get things to work by adding the 'blacklist nouveau'
 > > line to my /etc/modprobe.conf file.
 > >
 > > However, I am puzzled by why dracut is not adding the new
 > > /etc/modprobe.d/nvidia.conf file to the initramfs.
 > >
 > > I would have thought that dracut would automatically include *all*
 > > files in /etc/modprobe ending in ".conf". But is there something I
 > > need to do to "tell" dracut that a new .conf was added to /etc/modprobe.d?
 > >
 > 
 > Try adding this option in grub.conf, at the end of the kernel line:
 > 
 > rdblacklist=nouveau

While that would certainly work, my question is how do I get dracut to
make an initramfs that includes /etc/modprobe.d/nvidia.conf. Since the
other files in /etc/modprobe.d are included without listing their
modules on the kernel command line, I imagine there must be a
simpler/better way to get initramfs to include the file.

Just not sure what simple thing I am missing...