NVIDIA® Graphics Workstations
Some workstation configurations come with NVIDIA® Quadro™ graphics hardware. HP recommends use of NVIDIA proprietary graphics drivers for best results on Linux systems.
HP provides recommended versions of the drivers with
When installing Linux on a workstation that has an NVIDIA card, administrators should select a VESA- compatible driver to avoid instability experienced with some
Open source versions of Nouveau drivers and NVIDIA proprietary graphics drivers cannot coexist in the same runtime environment because they use the same hardware resources. If administrators create their own Linux environments using NVIDIA proprietary graphics drivers but choose not to use HP- packaged versions, HP recommends that they manually append the following boot loader parameters to properly suppress the Nouveau driver at runtime (grub example below):
kernel /vmlinuz ... rdblacklist=nouveau nouveau.modeset=0
This action is applied by HP installers but must be applied/restored under other circumstances.
To customize the display characteristics and resolutions of an NVIDIA proprietary graphics driver environment, execute:
To create and manipulate the /etc/X11/xorg.conf file, execute:
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