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Comment: specifying CentOS versions this article applied to

Do not use this article unless you are using CentOS 7.2 - 7.4. If you need instructions for disabling Nouveau for latest CentOS kernels/versions (7.5 - 7.6 at the time of this edit Feb 2019), please use the following article below:

CentOS 7.x NVIDIA Driver installation

When you are installing NVIDIA drivers, and it complains you have Nouveau running. Some GUI related issues with CentOS 7 included in this article.

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What it looks like:

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[exxact@localhost exx]# sudo -s nano /usr/lib/modprobe.d/dist-blacklist.conf


##add 'blacklist nouveau' at end of '# framebuffer drivers' list
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blacklist nouveau
##save changes


[root@localhost ~]# dracut -f
##wait a few seconds until your terminal is responsive again


[root@localhost ~]# reboot
##rebooting


[exxact@localhost ~]# init 3
[exxact@localhost ~]# ./NVIDIA*
##Done

##If you are still getting issues with nouveau after you blacklisted it, ran 'dracut -f', and rebooted system, please run 'dracut f' and reboot again. It sometimes takes another reboot if you ran updates before rebooting the first time.


GUI issues

Sometimes the GUI does not display properly when:

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