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I know there is plenty of documentation on blacklisting the Nouveau driver. However the normal methods are not working for me. I tried adding the below lines in the /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf file, however this does not work. Nouveau still gets loaded anyway. 

blacklist nouveau
blacklist lbm-nouveau
options nouveau modeset=0
alias nouveau off
alias lbm-nouveau off

I tried to disable the kernel modules using this command:

echo options nouveau modeset=0 | sudo tee -a /etc/modprobe.d/nouveau-kms.conf

followed by: 

update-initramfs -u

but it doesn't work. Nouveau still gets loaded anyway.

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I did it yesterday... did you reboot? check this out: askubuntu.com/questions/457850/… – Wagner Patriota May 1 '14 at 1:09
    
@Wagner Patriota Yes I did a reboot. I however do not see how that link applies as I am not having problems getting the nvidia driver working. I can not even blacklist nouveau. I haven't installed any propriety drivers yet as nouveau has to be blacklisted first. – Sandman007 May 1 '14 at 1:15
    
oh sure, the only thing in common is the blacklist... it worked to me just writing those lines and rebooting... – Wagner Patriota May 1 '14 at 1:28
    
@Wagner Patriota. I just realized what you are talking about. I feel as if you didn't even read my post which is why I was so confused. If you read the OP I had stated that I already added those blacklist commands in my blacklist.conf. – Sandman007 May 1 '14 at 2:00
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@WagnerPatriota Its Ok. I am sure I'll find something in the next few days, and I'll post back when I do. Thanks again for your help! – Sandman007 May 1 '14 at 3:36
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You may need to edit grub to prevent the kernel from ever loading nouveau at boot. Run the following commands:

cp /etc/default/grub ~/grubbackup
sudo sed -i 's/GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="/GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="nouveau.blacklist=1 /g' /etc/default/grub
sudo update-grub

Reboot.

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