Bug#651163: nvidia-kernel-common: X insists on loading nouveau

[Lucio Crusca]

Package: nvidia-kernel-common
Version: 20111111+1
Severity: important

After installing nvidia packages and rebooting as suggested, X does not
work anymore. The screen stays in text mode, I can use VT1-6, but in VT7
I see only a blinking caret.

lsmod shows nouveau loaded, even if /etc/modprobe.d/nvidia-kernel-common.conf
blacklisted it.

Among other things, also the nvidia module shows up in lsmod output.

I've already tried to manually run update-initramfs -u and rebooting, but
bothing changed.

If I rmmod nouveau and restart lightdm, I get nouveau loaded again.

if I rmmod nouveau and nvidia and then restart lightdm, xorg works but with
nouveau driver.

I suspect nvidia-kernel-common should configure something else in addition to
/etc/modprobe.d/nvidia-kernel-common.conf in order to keep X from loading 
nouveau.

My video card is a 

nVidia Corporation G96M [Quadro FX 770M] (rev a1)

and upstream proprietary drivers do work as expected (but I never installed 
them in this Debian system, I fear what mess they could do in wheezy, 
I only installed them in a previous squeeze system I've already erased).

-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (200, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 3.1.0-1-686-pae (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=it_IT.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=it_IT.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages nvidia-kernel-common depends on:
ii  dpkg               1.16.1.2
ii  module-init-tools  3.16-1  

nvidia-kernel-common recommends no packages.

nvidia-kernel-common suggests no packages.

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