Does this procedure outlined here look reasonable?

I get it I have to boot into command line mode without X-windows running and first remove nouveau, then run the installer for Nvidia driver. You can't do anything with X fully up.

OL9 is basically Redhat family, I think Fedora is the closest I can find.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4IblXxa8teY

Generally linux has no problems with using the one driver you want of many installed, and on ubuntu I did it with X running and the other way around - installed nvidia first, removed nouveau later. Don't think redhat is so different.

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So you'd like us to watch a video, before we try to answer your question??? Did you (AGAIN) do ANY research on your own??? As you've been told multiple times, Oracle Linux is Red Hat Enterprise Linux, configured for best Oracle performance. It's not Fedora...it's RHEL. It even says all this on their website, which you apparently still haven't looked at.

Did you try looking at the nVidia website, and reading their instructions?? They WROTE the driver and installer...that'd be the place I'd look, rather than some YouTube video:
https://docs.nvidia.com/datacenter/t...tes/index.html

Did you look at anything else, telling you that you can add the RPMFusion repository, then type in "sudo dnf install akmod-nvidia" (or whatever your card is) to do this???

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I doubt nouveau can be removed, it's part of the kernel. You could block it from loading tho....

I didn't waste any time watching the video, but did you try what it suggested? If it doesn't work as expected, then you will have something you can ask about here...

The nouveau driver can easily be removed; it's not part of the kernel, but a kernel module that's loaded at boot-time. There are explicit instructions for blacklisting the nouveau driver
https://docs.nvidia.com/ai-enterpris...0/nouveau.html

..along with many others. You just blacklist it, boot into runlevel 3, the install the nVidia driver. If you do things the hard way...but you can install things through the repositories for RHEL, Ubuntu, and many other flavors, and part of those packages blacklists/removes nouveau for you.

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I meant remove a package, like you can remove and install nvidia-driver package or whatever, but can't do that with nouveau. You can disable it, but not remove it. And (at least on debian) when you install the nvidia-driver package, it automatically blacklists nouveau for you. Pretty sure same with the nvidia .run script. So all you have to do to enable nouveau is remove nvidia-driver, and all you have to do to enable nvidia-driver is install it.

Au contraire!
https://nouveau.freedesktop.org/