how to install nvidia drivers on centos 7

This driver is incompatible with the NVIDIA driver, and must be disabled before proceeding. 'ERROR: The Nouveau kernel driver is currently in use by your system. I then run /sbin/init 3 and then chmod +x NVIDIA-Linux-x86-290.10.run followed by. To find out your Video Card model number, click Main Menu → System Settings → Display or run: lspci | grep VGA Now we are ready to download NVIDIA proprietary drivers. The last package ( dkms) is needed so that we don't have to reinstall NVIDIA drivers after each kernel updates.

Yum install kernel-devel kernel-headers dkms Before we start, make sure you have all required packages installed:

So it pays to add this extra step to your CentOS 6 installation. For instance, I had glxgear running at round 400 frames per second (FPS) before installing NVIDIA proprietary drivers and at around 1000 FPS after. By default, CentOS 6 comes with nouveau drivers, which for 3D (OpenGL) rendering, is order of magnitude slower that NVIDIA's proprietary drivers. This post explains how to install NVIDIA proprietary drivers on CentOS 6.

How to install nvidia drivers on centos 7