Comments on: Nvidia proprietary drivers and RHEL6

By: Daniel

Daniel — Sun, 10 Jun 2012 06:14:37 +0000

Hey, I tried this tutorial on my new RHEL 6 install but it did not work (I’m guessing because I used EFI boot instead of BIOS); do you know how to install the driver for an EFI boot system?

By: Jaime Gago

Jaime Gago — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 00:56:35 +0000

@Damien
I’ve installed on RHEL 6.1 and got issues that I was not able to fix using the info on this post (it helped me a lot though). I got the final fix here http://forums.nvidia.com/index.php?showtopic=162114 , I can now go to run level 5 but I still get the Nvidia X Server settings (GUI) to complain with the same error message you get. You might want to check my post on the topic on my blog.

By: Al

Al — Fri, 11 Nov 2011 15:58:41 +0000

Petr,
Fantastic instructions. Worked like a charm on my RHEL6.1 box. Many thanks for sharing.

By: Damien

Damien — Sat, 22 Oct 2011 22:03:58 +0000

Hello,
Thanks for the doc Unfortunately for me, I have applied it on Scientific Linux 6.1 and after the reboot it appears that nvidia drivers are not loaded. When I launch “Nvidia X Server Settings”, I receive “You don’t appear to be using the Nvidia Xdriver” => run nvidia-config as root. After I run it, X server does not start no more until I remove the created xorg.conf

Thanks in advance for your help

Kind regards

Damien

By: Nathan

Nathan — Thu, 06 Oct 2011 15:44:11 +0000

Thank you so much Petr! I had followed another guide for my initial installation of the NVIDIA drivers on RHEL6 and all was well until a kernel update, at which point X wouldn’t start. I followed your guide and it worked like a charm. One thing I’ll say for anyone else having this issue: since I had removed the Nouveau drivers, after the kernel update X couldn’t start. The NVIDIA installer modifies the kernel, so I had to load the new kernel with init 3 enabled, and reinstall the NVIDIA drivers. This reinstall was critical for me, nothing else seemed to work and X would fail to start. Now I am sitting here typing in a browser with the new kernel enabled.

Thanks again!

By: Rubin

Rubin — Thu, 15 Sep 2011 17:37:20 +0000

Thanks for these steps! They saved the day for me. But now I’ve got another problem as a result. When I try to play a video like a .avi file, I get only audio. I made sure to install all the necessary codecs as mentioned here:
http://wiki.centos.org/TipsAndTricks/MultimediaOnCentOS
But no go.

I’m using CentOS 6. The problem is not specific to .avi files, I’ve tried other formats and it’s the same. This started only after I installed the Nvidia driver. Any ideas? Also, removing the ‘xorg-x11-drv-nouveau’ package seemed to remove the ‘xorg-x11-drivers’ package as well. Could that have anything to do with it?

By: TheFunnyOne

TheFunnyOne — Mon, 12 Sep 2011 17:22:45 +0000

Thanks Daniel. Worked perfectly!

By: Shepard Siegel

Shepard Siegel — Fri, 20 May 2011 15:29:16 +0000

(oops) Thanks Petr! The recent RHEL6.1 bump to 2.6.32-135.0.15 made our old process insufficient; and your instructions allowed us to install NVIDIA 275.09 w/o issue.
-Shep

By: Shepard Siegel

Shepard Siegel — Fri, 20 May 2011 15:22:09 +0000

Thanks Daniel. The recent RHEL6 bump to 2.6.32-135.0.15 made our old process insufficient; and your instructions allowed us to install NVIDIA 275.09 w/o issue.
-Shep

By: Petr Ruzicka

Petr Ruzicka — Thu, 07 Apr 2011 13:05:43 +0000

Thanks Daniel.

You are right… I added reboot command after update.

Regards

PetrR