***Installation of Nvidia Drivers***

1. First need to ensure that the kernel development and header packages are installed. 
   For Scientific Linux/RHEL/Centos or Fedora type the following yum commands:
   	`yum groupinstall "Development Tools"`
	`yum install kernel-devel kernel-headers dkms`

2. Before installing the drivers, need the driver product type:
    
    `lspci -nn | grep VGA`
    
    which will produce output such as the following:
    `01:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: NVIDIA Corporation GF108GL [Quadro 600] [10de:0df8] (rev a1)`
    
    then go to the [NVIDIA](https://www.nvidia.com/Download/index.aspx) official 
    website and download the appropriate linux driver, 
    in this case for the Quadro 600 driver.
    
3. Disable the Nouveau Driver. This can be done by editing 
4. `/etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf` and adding the line `blacklist nouveau`.
   
5. In addition the following line can be added to the boot options by 
6. editing `/etc/default/grub` and adding `nouveau.blacklist` 
   option to the line:
   
   `GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="nouveau.blacklist=1"`
   
   Then run `grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/grub2/grub.cfg`

7. Create a new initramfs file after taking a backup of the existing one, as follows:
    `mv /boot/initramfs-$(uname -r).img /boot/initramfs-$(uname -r).img.bak`
    `dracut -v /boot/initramfs-$(uname -r).img $(uname -r)`
    `init 3`
    `X -configure`
    `reboot`

8. To install the driver make sure that the X-server is stopped (e.g. systemctl stop X ; 
   or /etc/init.d/gdm stop ; or killall X ;  etc.). The can run the Nvidia driver install script:
   
   `sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-390.10.run`

9. Then can reboot into Xwindow by typing `init 5`