Install Nvidia Drivers In CentOS 6.3

Install Nvidia Drivers In CentOS 6.3

01- get Nvidia Card Information First
#lspci | grep VGA

02-download latest nvidia Drivers (make sure you care using supporting drivers with your card)
http://www.nvidia.in/Download/index.aspx?lang=en-in
#yum update

#yum clean all

#yum install kernel-devel kernel-headers gcc make

#rpm –import http://elrepo.org/RPM-GPG-KEY-elrepo.org

#rpm -Uvh http://elrepo.org/elrepo-release-6-4.el6.elrepo.noarch.rpm

03 – blacklist nouveau

#gedit /etc/grub.conf
(Edit file add nomodeset rdblacklist=nouveau at the end of the kernel line)
#echo “blacklist nouveau options nouveau modeset=0” > /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist-nouveau.conf

#yum install kmod-nvidia
#gedit /etc/grub.conf
(Add nomodeset rdblacklist=nouveau at the end of the kernel line)

#reboot
(restart your computer)
After restart — go to terminal and login as root (Change Run Level 5 to Run Level 3)

#init 3

(enter your username and password)

(again enter your root password)

go to the location of Downloaded Nvidia Driver .run file
#cd /home/rajiv/Downloads/

Make the file executable and then run it

#chmod +x  NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-310.84.run

#./NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-310.84.run

after installation done !!!

# init 5
restart your system and Enjoy your graphic card 🙂