successful Nvidia X11 driver installation in SL7

[Yasha Karant]

I have successfully installed the current proprietary Nvidia X11 driver
required for CUDA.

typescript:

[***@jb344 ~]$ su
Password:
[***@jb344 ykarant]# rpm -e xorg-x11-drivers xorg-x11-drv-nouveau
[***@jb344 ykarant]# vi /etc/default/grub
[***@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
[***@jb344 ykarant]# vi /etc/modprobe.d/disable-nouveau.conf
[***@jb344 ykarant]# cat /etc/modprobe.d/disable-nouveau.conf
blacklist nouveau
options nouveau modeset=0
[***@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