Editing NVidia (section)

=== Disable nouveau ===

Boot to command line. One way to do this is to add an argument at Grub boot loader. At Grub boot menu select current kernel and press 'a' to enter kernel arguments. Add a 3 to end of line and press ENTER.

This should boot to command line. Now disable nouveau by logging into system & as root edit /etc/grub.conf by adding rdblacklist=nouveau to end of your latest kernel. Save and exit file.
<pre># vi /etc/grub.conf</pre>

Create a new file in /etc/modprobe.d/ called disable-nouveau.conf:
<pre># vi /etc/modprobe.d/disable-nouveau.conf</pre>

Add these two lines to your disable-nouveau.conf file then save & exit:
<pre>blacklist nouveau
options nouveau modeset=0</pre>