I recently purchased a thinkpad p50s and decided to put centos on, but now the computer is not using the dedicated nvidia card. How can I fix this?
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Did you install the Nvidia driver? It is proprietary and you have to download it.Thomas– Thomas2016-09-11 10:36:28 +00:00Commented Sep 11, 2016 at 10:36
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@Thomas I have downloaded it and gotten a .run file, but I am unsure of what to do with thisspoon_man– spoon_man2016-09-11 18:31:27 +00:00Commented Sep 11, 2016 at 18:31
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If you want to use the third party NVidia driver, I suggest you avoid using the .run file, and use the ELRepo repository. Follow these instructions to get the nvidia-detect package. Then run yum install $(nvidia-detect), which should install the appropriate driver on your system.
(nvidia-detect looks up which driver is appropriate for the hardware you have.)
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Using the run file Xorg (startx for the Gnome environment) was completely destroyed and I had to do a fresh install. Do you have any experience with nvidia drivers and GNOME conflictions like that?spoon_man– spoon_man2016-09-26 19:35:24 +00:00Commented Sep 26, 2016 at 19:35
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Not sure what you're saying. But it's not surprising that it overwrote packaged files. This is why we don't recommend using it.jsbillings– jsbillings2016-09-26 23:43:05 +00:00Commented Sep 26, 2016 at 23:43