Installing Nvidia drivers

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adversarial_magpie
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Installing Nvidia drivers

Post by adversarial_magpie » 2021/06/30 14:53:58

Hello everyone, I'm trying to install Nvidia drivers for Tesla V100's on a dell c4140 running centos 7. Currently attempting to install from runfiles because the package manager method seems convoluted but not really having much luck this way either. I've completed all the pre-installation actions, disabled nouveau, booted into multi-user.target in order to install the drivers and even have seen confirmation that the drivers are installed. But when I reboot into graphical.target the system gets 'stuck' booting and never completes the process. I can rescue the system with a live usb and reboot back into multi-user.target but that doesn't really get me any further along. The guide I'm following is https://docs.nvidia.com/datacenter/tesl ... index.html and https://docs.nvidia.com/cuda/cuda-insta ... ide-linux/. Any help or advice would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance.

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Re: Installing Nvidia drivers

Post by TrevorH » 2021/06/30 16:50:57

The _easy_ way is to use the package manager. Download and install elrepo-release, yum install nvidia-detect and run nvidia-detect which tells you which package to install then yum install $thatpackage. Reboot. Done.
The future appears to be RHEL or Debian. I think I'm going Debian.
Info for USB installs on http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/InstallFromUSBkey
CentOS 5 and 6 are deadest, do not use them.
Use the FAQ Luke

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