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title: Turn off Nouveau
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# Turn off Nouveau

Before we install NVIDIA gpu, we need to make sure Nouveau which is turned off.

## Steps

1. Check the status.

```
lsmod | grep nouveau
```

![](https://i.imgur.com/HWl0tZR.png)


2. Add the following content 
```
sudo vim /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf
```

With the following contents:
```
blacklist nouveau
options nouveau modeset=0
```
Regenerate the kernel initramfs:
```
sudo update-initramfs -u
```
![](https://i.imgur.com/GpxLQKZ.png)

3. Adjust the resolution

```
sudo vim /etc/default/grub
```

Find this line: `GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash"`
Change to: `GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash nomodeset"`

Also, find this line: `#GRUB_GFXMODE=800x4001` (the value maybe not the same.)
Change to: `GRUB_GFXMODE=1920x1080`

![](https://i.imgur.com/YphLMQQ.png)

Update it:

```
sudo update-grub
```
![](https://i.imgur.com/f8v0PBX.png)

4. Reboot and check the status again

![](https://i.imgur.com/gc5I8YI.png)

## Note:

Normally we do not need to turn off it during installing the GPU driver for newer computers.

Here is a very primitive environment that it did not install anything after I installed the Ubuntu 20.04 operating system. My GPU is RTX 2070 super.

I check the status of nouveau (turn on), and running kernel version compilered by gcc version and the gcc version which was installed by build-essential.  

![](https://i.imgur.com/PQUiJlW.png)

I installed the GPU driver version which is v510 by the `apt` command (Not the file downloaded from website i.e., `NVIDIA-XXX.run`).

![](https://i.imgur.com/g91L90B.png)

In the installation, I encountered the MOK stage, but that was okay.
Reboot it, and check the gpu status by `nvidia-smi`.

![](https://i.imgur.com/xdgYVdx.png)

Here is detail configuration for this computer.

![](https://i.imgur.com/tRYWLI9.png)


## Reference

- https://www.itread01.com/article/1535599424.html
- https://blog.csdn.net/wf19930209/article/details/81877822
- https://askubuntu.com/questions/841876/how-to-disable-nouveau-kernel-driver
- https://blog.csdn.net/weixin_42149550/article/details/110845799
- https://zhuanlan.zhihu.com/p/373133529