Nvidia proprietary drivers and RHEL6

FROM:Petr’s blog about Linux

Sometimes you need to run proprietary drivers in various linux distributions.
I was able to run it on standard 6.0 installed as “Desktop” with the following commands:

Update the system and install the necessary packages

[cc lang="bash"]
yum update
yum install gcc kernel-devel
reboot
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Blacklist the driver

[cc lang="bash"]
sed -i ‘/root=/s|$| rdblacklist=nouveau vga=791|’ /boot/grub/grub.conf
echo “blacklist nouveau” >> /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf
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Change the initrd image:

[cc lang="bash"]
mv /boot/initramfs-$(uname -r).img /boot/initramfs-$(uname -r)-nouveau.img
dracut /boot/initramfs-$(uname -r).img $(uname -r)
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Remove the nouveau driver and reboot:
[cc lang="bash"]
yum remove xorg-x11-drv-nouveau
reboot
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Stop the X server and run the Nvidia installation process from command line

[cc lang="bash"]
init 3
chmod +x NVIDIA-Linux-x86-260.19.29.run
./NVIDIA-Linux-x86-260.19.29.run
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Enjoy