Install P2000 on SKY-8201L

1. Purpose:

The article illustrates the steps for user to install P2000 driver on SKY-8201L. 

Here, P2000 driver is installed on CentOS 7.5.

2. Audience:

Users with basic knowledge on CentOS and its commands.

3. Steps:

A- BIOS

1.Reboot to enter BIOS setting.

        CSM Parameters => Video : UEFI

                                        Other PCI device : UEFI

2.Save and exit.

 B- CentOS Installation: Grub

        Boot to installation disk and GRUB menu is displayed. Select “Troubleshooting” and “ Install CentOs7 in basic graphic mode”.

        Troubleshooting => Install CentOS7 in basic graphic mode(load default driver)

 C- CentOS Installation

      During the installation of CentOS7, Please select “Development and Creative Workstation” in the column “Software Selection”

        Software Selection => Development and Creative Workstation

D- Update OS

After finishing installation, user install the following packages.

1.  # yum -y update

2.  # yum groupinstall "Development Tools"

3.  # yum -y install dkms epel-release

4.  # rpm –ivh kernel-devel-3.10.0-862.el7.centos.x86_64.rpm

 E- Disable Previous Nouveau driver

1. Edit /lib/modprobe.d/dist-blacklist.conf

a.#blacklist nvidiafb
b. blacklist nouveau
c. options   nouveau modeset=0

     2. Edit /etc/default/grub

    a. Add the following string in GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX

rd.driver.blacklist nouveau nouveau.modeset=0

    3. Refresh GRUB (UEFI)

# sudo grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/efi/EFI/centos/grub.cfg

    4. Generate initramfs image

# mv /boot/initramfs-$(uname -r).img  /boot/initramfs-$(uname -r).img.bak
# dracut /boot/initramfs-$(uname -r).img $(uname -r)

    5. # reboot

    6. GRUB menu : Please select 3.10.0-862.el7.x86_64

F- Check nouveau status

# lsmod | grep nouveau

 G- Install NVIDIA driver

# chmod +x NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-440.59.run

H- Text mode

# init 3

I- Rename kernel source path

# cd /usr/src/kernels

# mv  3.10.0-862.el7.centos.x86_64  3.10.0-862.el7.x86_64

K- Install NVIDIA driver

# sudo sh  NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-440.59.run --no-opengl-files  --kernel-source-path=/usr/src/kernels/3.10.0-862.el7.x86_64

 

Select “Yes” for NVIDIA’s 32-bit.

 

 Select “Yes” for nvidia-xconfig utility.

 

X configuration file is successfully updated.

Installation of NVIDIA is complete.

 

Check NVIDIA driver

# nvidia-smi

 

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