Update Nvidia driver on CentOS 7.x after kernel update

nvidia-centos-update.md

Update Nvidia driver on CentOS 7.x

Download the latest Nvidia driver on http://www.nvidia.com/drivers

Update the kernel to the latest version

$ yum update

Change to runlevel 3 - multi user mode for the next reboot

$ systemctl set-default multi-user.target
$ systemctl get-default

Reboot your computer

$ reboot

Install the Nvidia driver from the console after rebooting

$ chmod +x NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-xxx.xx.run
$ ./NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-xxx.xx.run

Change back to runlevel 5 - graphical mode for the next reboot

$ systemctl set-default graphical.target
$ systemctl get-default

Reboot back to the graphical mode, and enjoy.

$ reboot

Nice gist. If you are using the mainline kernel, you will also need to ensure you have the kernel-ml-devel package installed.

Hi frengky,
I'm using Centos 7. After I ran the following commands,
I'm unable to see a video output on my screen including no boot text.
$ yum update
$ systemctl set-default multi-user.target
$ systemctl get-default
$ reboot

Hi frengky,
I'm using Centos 7. After I ran the following commands,
I'm unable to see a video output on my screen including no boot text.
$ yum update
$ systemctl set-default multi-user.target
$ systemctl get-default
$ reboot

If you have nvidia-docker installed, it is necessary to kill them.
The docker container:

sudo docker kill ${sudo docker ps -q}

The nvidia-docker-plugin:

$ ps aux|grep nvidia
root       3115  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S    14:52   0:00 [nvidia-modeset/]
root       3116  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S    14:52   0:00 [nvidia-modeset/]
nvidia-+   3615  0.3  0.0 9173572 46648 ?       Ssl  14:52   0:01 /usr/bin/nvidia-docker-plugin -s /var/lib/nvidia-docker
root       3657  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S    14:52   0:00 [irq/70-nvidia]
root       3658  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S    14:52   0:00 [nvidia]
root       3779  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S    14:52   0:00 [irq/71-nvidia]
root       3780  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S    14:52   0:00 [nvidia]

$ sudo kill 3615