Thursday, October 18, 2012

installing CUDA driver in CentOS 6.3

Problem: The new CUDA 5.0 is out. This time, a single package including the driver, development tools and example codes. But the installation cannot finish by keep asking for reboot.

Cause: The CentOS 6.3 kernel boots with the "nouveau" feature enabled.

Solutoin:

Edit the /boot/grub/grub.conf such that the kernel line with the following at the end of the line: rdblacklist=nouveau

Edit the /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf to append "blacklist nouveau" after the last line. 

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