How to use nouveau driver without removing nvidia driver

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I was using the nvidia driver for sometime but bothered of the crashing state regarding hibernation.
It’s still a problem and I have to restart the gnome-shell everytime because of rendering issues and artefacts.

As stated in the rpm-wiki it shouldn’t be a problem to use the nouveau driver instead of the nvidia driver.
However I did modify my grub2 config like described here and here and did verify that my changed config is loaded during boot (by entering with ‘e’).

GRUB_TIMEOUT=5
GRUB_DISTRIBUTOR="$(sed 's, release .*$,,g' /etc/system-release)"
GRUB_DEFAULT=saved
GRUB_DISABLE_SUBMENU=true
GRUB_TERMINAL_OUTPUT="console"
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="resume=/dev/mapper/fedora_localhost--live-swap rd.lvm.lv=fedora_localhost-live/root rd.lvm.lv=fedora_localhost-live/swap nomodeset"
GRUB_DISABLE_RECOVERY="false"
GRUB_ENABLE_BLSCFG=true

So far so good, but the weird part is that the nvidia driver is still in use and loaded and nouveau gets unloaded.

entering:
lspci -nnk | grep -iA2 vga

returns:

02:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: NVIDIA Corporation GP106 [GeForce GTX 1060 6GB] [10de:1c03] (rev a1)
	Subsystem: Micro-Star International Co., Ltd. [MSI] Device [1462:3281]
	Kernel driver in use: nvidia

executing:
grep nouveau /var/log/Xorg.0.log

gives me:

[     8.465] (==) Matched nouveau as autoconfigured driver 1
[     8.471] (II) LoadModule: "nouveau"
[     8.471] (II) Loading /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/drivers/nouveau_drv.so
[     8.473] (II) Module nouveau: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
[     9.425] (II) UnloadModule: "nouveau"
[     9.425] (II) Unloading nouveau

Can anyone help me out?

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Ok, I had to remove nomodeset from my grub-config. Found a note in the arch-wiki:

Make sure you do not have nomodeset or vga= as a kernel parameter, since Nouveau requires kernel mode-setting.

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