[CentOS] install nvidia driver on centos 7.1

[Akemi Yagi]

On Mon, Jul 20, 2015 at 1:39 PM, Wes James <comptekki at me.com> wrote:
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>> On Jul 20, 2015, at 2:31 PM, Johnny Hughes <johnny at centos.org> wrote:
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>> On 07/20/2015 03:24 PM, Wes James wrote:
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>>>> On Jul 20, 2015, at 2:20 PM, Jonathan Billings <billings at negate.org> wrote:
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>>>> On Mon, Jul 20, 2015 at 02:16:02PM -0600, Wes James wrote:
>>>>> I’m trying to install the nvidia driver on centos 7.1.  I see
>>>>> instructions to remove nouveau and disable the kernel module.  When
>>>>
>>>> What instructions?  If you use the nvidia drivers from elrepo.org, it
>>>> will automatically set up the xorg and kernel command line config.
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> I used this to start:
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>>> sudo yum install epel-release
>>>
>>> but yum list|grep nvidia doesn’t show anything in epel.
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>> EPEL is not elrepo ...
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>> http://elrepo.org/tiki/tiki-index.php <http://elrepo.org/tiki/tiki-index.php>
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>
> Yes.  I’m looking at that site now and added it and now I’m getting several items with yum list|grep nvidia.
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> Thanks,
>
> -wes

You may want to start from this page:

http://elrepo.org/tiki/nvidia-detect

Akemi