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During an interview, in Finland Linus Torvalds the man behind the exceptional idea of Linux and git source code management, gave his ‘Middle Finger Salute‘ to NVIDIA in frustration with the support provided by the company for the Linux platform.

Torvalds is depressed with the fact that NVIDIA is not supporting Linux, enough. It gets even more worse with the truth that NVIDIA is getting hot with every passing day in Android based mobile handset market which literally means that NVIDIA is not supporting Linux.

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The outburst of anger and frustration was the result of the question asked by a Linux user. The question was ‘Optimus‘ feature of NVIDIA which lets the user to switch On/Off Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) to save power came late for Linux, as compared to other Operating Systems. NVIDIA was very much clear when asked about this, and clearly stated that NVIDIA is not going to support Linux to the point, Windows and Mac would get.

This issue of NVIDIA is not new and the users have been complaining for years regarding this. The Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) has tried to fill this with its own open source driver. NVIDIA refused to release Open Source driver saying that it can not make critical informations publicly available.

On the other hand, the act of Linus Torvalds of showing middle finger on camera was criticized, some said that it does not suit an intellectual like him, other said it was not professional at all, while some said that even Torvalds is a human and it was just an outburst.

Most of the today’s distro comes with an open source NVIDIA alternative called ‘Nouveau‘. Nouveau render graphics perfectly, however it lacks 3D support. Hence to Install Proprietary NVIDIA driver. Nouveau must be stopped from starting automatically, which we will be calling as blacklisting throughout the article.

Installation of NVIDIA Drivers in RHEL/CentOS and Fedora

First, install needed “Development” packages using YUM command as shown.

Before installing NVIDIA drivers, you need to know your driver product type by using following command.

Sample Output

Once you know your driver name, then go to NVIDIA official website and download required drivers for your system. Download drivers using following link.

Disable Nouveau Driver

open “/etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf” in your favourite editor and add “blacklist nouveau”, ofcourse without double-quotes.

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Next create a new “initramfs” file and taking backup of existing.

Reboot the machine. Login into command mode using Alt+F4 / ALT+F5 as root.

Once you in command line mode, next go to the folder where you’ve downloaded NVIDIA driver and run the script as show. If any dependency, you need to Yum the required packages.

Once installation is complete, generate xorg.conf file using following command.

Copy xorg.conf.new as /etc/X11/xorg.conf.

Now switch to X Window as root user by typing.

Launch NVIDIA configuration window and set the Resolution, manually, and at last click on ‘Save to X Configuration File‘ and quit. For reference, follow the screen shot added below.

Installation of NVIDIA Drivers Debian/Ubuntu/Linux Mint

First, check the information about your supported Graphics Card by issuing following command.

Sample Output

Next add a repository under “/etc/apt/sources.list” file at the bottom. Save and close it.

Disable Nouveau Driver

Open “/etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf” file and add the following line. Save and close the file.

Next, do a system update and then install NVIDIA drivers and required Kernel packages using “apt-get” command.

Stop the X service (gdm3).

Generate new xorg.conf file using following command.

Copy xorg.conf.new as /etc/X11/xorg.conf.

Now switch to X Window as root user by typing.

Open NVIDIA configuration wizard and set the Resolution, manually, and at last click on ‘Save to X Configuration File‘ and quit.

NVIDIA Driver Settings

Congrats! Your installation and configuration of NVIDIA Graphics Driver is complete.

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Installation of NVIDIA Drivers in RHEL/CentOS and Fedora

Sample Output

Disable Nouveau Driver

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Installation of NVIDIA Drivers Debian/Ubuntu/Linux Mint

Sample Output

Disable Nouveau Driver

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