[CentOS] install nvidia driver on centos 7.1

Mon Jul 20 20:34:23 UTC 2015
James A. Peltier <jpeltier at sfu.ca>

----- Original Message -----
| On 07/20/2015 03:24 PM, Wes James wrote:
| > 
| >> On Jul 20, 2015, at 2:20 PM, Jonathan Billings <billings at negate.org>
| >> wrote:
| >>
| >> 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:
| > 
| > sudo yum install epel-release
| > 
| > but yum list|grep nvidia doesn’t show anything in epel.
| 
| EPEL is not elrepo ...
| 
| 
| http://elrepo.org/tiki/tiki-index.php

You can also use the CUDA repo to get the latest nVidia drivers.  Both ELRepo and CUDA set the values for you.

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