Removes the nouveau module/driver from Fedora 29+

remove-nouveau.sh

#!/bin/bash

# Removes the xorg-x11-drv-nouveau package from this machine, because it's not needed
sudo dnf remove xorg-x11-drv-nouveau -y

# Blacklist the nouveau module as a module and in dracut
sudo echo 'blacklist nouveau' > /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist-nouveau.conf
sudo echo 'omit_drivers+=" nouveau "' > /etc/dracut.conf.d/blacklist-nouveau.conf

# Backup the current initramfs
sudo mv /boot/initramfs-$(uname -r).img /boot/initramfs-$(uname -r)-nouveau.img

# Regenerate the current initramfs
sudo dracut -f /boot/initramfs-$(uname -r).img $(uname -r)

# Regenerate grub2's config
if [ -d /sys/firmware/efi ]; then
	sudo grub2-mkconfig -o /etc/grub2-efi.cfg
else
	sudo grub2-mkconfig -o /etc/grub2.cfg
fi

echo 'Done. You should reboot your machine now for all changes to come into effect.'
exit 0