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This requires that you first "chmod +x" the driver package (e.g. NVIDIA-Linux-x86-169.04-pkg1.run) downloaded from the NVidia site, and then establish a symbolic link from it, to /root/NVIDIA.run . | This requires that you first "chmod +x" the driver package (e.g. NVIDIA-Linux-x86-169.04-pkg1.run) downloaded from the NVidia site, and then establish a symbolic link from it, to /root/NVIDIA.run . | ||
Newer distributions using SELinux may encounter problems with restrictions that prevent init scripts from executing certain commands related to kernel modules. Creating an SELinux rule exception is the correct solution, but may be difficult. A work-around is to insert "/usr/bin/setenforce 0" before running the NVIDIA installer, and "/usr/bin/setenforce 1" afterwards. | |||
== ATI == | == ATI == | ||