Nouveau blacklist does not work

Graphics / Linux
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If you are using a blacklist file in /etc/modprobe.d and it’s not workign, what worked for me was changing my kernel command line to this in /etc/default/grub

GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="modprobe.blacklist=nouveau"

… then doing a sudo update-grub and rebooting.

now,

lsmod | grep nouveau

returns nothing

Nvidia might want to update it’s installer, since in the latest 18.04.4 release /etc/modprobe.d seems to be ignored, at least when it comes to nouveau.