======kmod-nvidia======
The **kmod-nvidia** package provides the NVIDIA driver kernel module (nvidia.ko). To determine which driver your graphics card requires, please use the [[nvidia-detect|nvidia-detect]] utility.
The **nvidia-x11-drv** package provides the proprietary NVIDIA binary OpenGL X11 display driver files. This package will be installed as a requirement for kmod-nvidia.
To install kmod-nvidia, run:
# yum install kmod-nvidia
If you don't know which graphics card you have, run:
# yum install nvidia-detect
# yum install $(nvidia-detect)
After installing / updating the nvidia package, users are advised to **reboot their system**. Simply restarting X may not suffice, one needs to drop out of X, remove and reload the nvidia kernel module and restart X. For most end users, a reboot will be simpler.
/* For the complete list of graphics cards supported by the **legacy** drivers, please refer to the following Nvidia documentation:
http://www.nvidia.com/object/IO_32667.html
For the **current** (550) driver, please see:
https://www.nvidia.com/Download/driverResults.aspx/223426/en-us/
*/
**If you used Nvidia's binary installer** \\
Users who have installed the driver by running the binary installer provided by Nvidia are advised to //uninstall it before attempting to install kmod-nvidia//. Run the same script that was used for the installation by adding a %%--uninstall%% flag. For example (adjust the name appropriately):
# sh ./NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-550.54.14.run --uninstall
**If you get a black screen upon reboot** \\
If you are faced with a black screen and do NOT have ssh access to the system, then one way to obtain a usable CLI is to reboot the system, stop at the grub/grub2 menu, edit (i.e., "e") the first kernel command line, add " 3" to the end of the kernel command line, and continue the boot to multi-user.target (runlevel 3, non-GUI).