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Subject:
successful Nvidia X11 driver installation in SL7
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Yasha Karant <[log in to unmask]>
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Yasha Karant <[log in to unmask]>
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Tue, 21 Oct 2014 17:11:04 -0700
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I have successfully installed the current proprietary Nvidia X11 driver 
required for CUDA.

typescript:

[ykarant@jb344 ~]$ su
Password:
[root@jb344 ykarant]# rpm -e xorg-x11-drivers xorg-x11-drv-nouveau
[root@jb344 ykarant]# vi /etc/default/grub
[root@jb344 ykarant]# grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/grub2/grub.cfg
Generating grub configuration file ...
Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-3.10.0-123.el7.x86_64
Found initrd image: /boot/initramfs-3.10.0-123.el7.x86_64.img
Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-3.10.0-123.8.1.el7.x86_64
Found initrd image: /boot/initramfs-3.10.0-123.8.1.el7.x86_64.img
Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-0-rescue-9e59d688ec394445aa63626075677bcc
Found initrd image: 
/boot/initramfs-0-rescue-9e59d688ec394445aa63626075677bcc.img
Found Scientific Linux release 6.4 (Carbon) on /dev/sda5
Found CentOS release 5.5 (Final) on /dev/sdd5
done
[root@jb344 ykarant]# vi /etc/modprobe.d/disable-nouveau.conf
[root@jb344 ykarant]# cat /etc/modprobe.d/disable-nouveau.conf
blacklist nouveau
options nouveau modeset=0
[root@jb344 ykarant]#sh ~/Downloads/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-340.32.run

The NVIDIA...run is a script that runs and does all of the necessary steps.

reboot the system.

Done and working.

Yasha Karant

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