FWIW: I just did the following in RHEL6 thanks to "samkraju". Just want ppl to know that it's relatively the same


on RHEL6 and Fedora 13:
1) Blacklist the nouveau driver: Add below line to /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf file
blacklist nouveau
2) Rebuild the initramfs image file using dracut:
* Backup the initramfs file
$ sudo mv /boot/initramfs-$(uname -r).img /boot/initramfs-$(uname -r).img.bak
* Rebuild the initramfs file
$ sudo dracut -v /boot/initramfs-$(uname -r).img $(uname -r)
3) Reboot the system to runlevel 3 (without graphics) (i.e. I set value in /etc/inittab file to 3 from 5 and rebooted)
4) Check that nouveau driver is not loaded
$ lsmod | grep nouveau

Extras:
** ran system-config-display command to see if a config was OK
** yum -y install kernel-devel and *gcc* (or install these some other way)

5) Run the NVidia driver package
$ sudo ./NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-195.36.15-pkg2.run
Above command will create xorg.conf file in /etc/X11 directory which is responsible to use NVidia driver in X.
6) Restart the system and NVidia driver will be used now. (i.e. I set value in /etc/inittab file to 5 from 3 and rebooted)


My point in doing this was to enable desktop effects .. woot!

I have done ALL of these instructions in several different ways. Each time I disable/blacklist the Nouveau driver I get a black screen. I am unable to install the NVDIA drivers with a black screen.

Can someone please tell me how to disable the nouveau drivers and still get a command prompt to install the NVIDA driver?

Are you using Ubuntu? If so, then see my post #4 on the first page of this thread: http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...2/#post4062945

I tried that already. Once completed, I received a black screen. I am installing this on Backtrack 5.

First check your /etc/X11/xorg.conf file. In the device section it should list the driver as "nvidia".
To disable nouveau try adding blacklist nouveau to the /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf file. You chould be able to do this from recovery mode assuming that Backtrack 5 has a recovery mode like Ubuntu does. Then reboot and see if you can get to the desktop.
If blacklisting nouveau alone does not help, try also adding these to /etc/X11/xorg.conf, each on a separate line:
See this for reference: http://www.ubuntugeek.com/howto-inst...ucid-lynx.html

I needed to stop the nouveau kernel too. I tried two or three things but they didn't work. But every time NVIDIA gave me that msg of having to stop the kernel, the next thing it would do was to ask me if I wanted it to create a .conf file. I finally gave that a try and NVIDIA created the nvidia-installer-disable-nouveau.conf. When I rebooted, I continued with whatever I needed to do after disabling the kernel (I'm trying to install CUDA) and the kernel was disabled and everything worked. (The device driver I was trying to install after disabling the kernel was successfully installed). I really have no knowledge whatsoever of linux so I just tried doing whatever I could. Hope it helps you too.

Glad this worked for you!

Could you tell us:
1. What version of Ubuntu are you using?
2. How did you install the nvidia driver? Did you install the nvidia-current driver from the Ubuntu repositories? Or did you install the driver from nvidia.com?
When you install the nvidia driver from the Ubuntu repos, nouveau should be disabled automatically. It is for me.
If that is the case then you should definitely be using the nvidia driver from the Ubuntu repos. It is the simplest way to install the driver. I always use the nvidia driver from the Ubuntu repos and I never have problems with it.
See this for installing the nvidia driver on Ubuntu: http://psychocats.net/ubuntu/drivers
The restricted drivers manager should detect that the nvidia driver is available for your system and offer to install it.
Whatever you do, make sure you only have one version of the nvidia driver installed. Do not install the nvidia driver from multiple sources.

And welcome to the LQ forums!

I am using Ubuntu 10.04. I had the proprietary driver installed (which I did normally via Additional Drivers in ubuntu) before installing the driver for CUDA . Thing is, I needed to install CUDA and CUDA came with three things: A device driver, a toolkit and an SDK. This device driver is from NVIDIA (devdriver_4.2_linux_32_295.41).
I followed steps from this link http://webcache.googleusercontent.co...cuda4.2-ubuntu and it worked even though the installation was for ubuntu 11.04. HOWEVER, the method described to blacklist nouveau didn't work for me so I let NVIDIA create a .conf file.
Hope whatever I've written makes sense!

Hi,

Is any one know and has experience for installation DELL T7610 Centos 6.4 Nvidia Quadro K4000?

having followed some direction above?!, please advice.

Cheers,

Gn