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Install NVIDIA 510 driver (LHR Bypass) on CentOS/Fedora for Mining

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Download NVIDIA 510 Driver

Download driver from here (Official Link) or with wget.

wget https://us.download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86_64/510.68.02/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-510.68.02.run

If the above link doesn’t work, you can download a copy from this site with the following.

wget https://www.incredigeek.com/home/downloads/NVIDIA/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-510.68.02.run.tgz

Extract with

tar zxf ./NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-510.68.02.run.tgz

Verify Driver (Optional)

Not a bad idea to check if you downloaded from an untrusted source.

sha256sum NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-510.68.02.run

The Hash should equal

bd2c344ac92b2fc12b06043590a4fe8d4eb0ccb74d0c49352f004cf2d299f4c5

Install NVIDIA Driver

We can now install the NVIDIA driver with the following command.

sudo ./NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-510.68.02.run

It will have a couple of prompts that are easy to walk through.

While installing the driver, it can try to blacklist Nouveau, if it runs into issues, try running the following, reboot, and run the install again.

sudo gruby --update-kernel=ALL --args="nouveau.modeset=0"

After driver is installed, reboot your machine.

Now download a copy of your favorite mining software and enjoy the extra Mhs…

Install RX 580 Mining Drivers on Debian Based Distributions

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Use wget to download AMD drivers.

wget https://drivers.amd.com/drivers/linux/amdgpu-pro-20.45-1164792-ubuntu-20.04.tar.xz --referer https://support.amd.com

Extract archive.

tar xf amdgpu-pro-20.45-1164792-ubuntu-20.04.tar.xz

Change directory

cd amdgpu-pro-20.45-1164792-ubuntu-20.04

Install AMD Drivers

./amdgpu-pro-install -y --opencl=legacy,rocm --headless

If you run into issues with it saying “Unsupported DEB based OS” Refer to the following article.

Unsupported DEB-based OS: /etc/os-release ID ‘kali’

Unsupported DEB-based OS: /etc/os-release ID ‘kali’

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Unsupported DEB-based OS: /etc/os-release ID ‘kali’. You can get the above error if you try to install AMD drivers on Kali Linux. Looks like by default they are looking for a system that is Ubuntu, LinuxMint or Debian.

You can resolve the issue by opening up the “amdgpu-pro-install” file and adding more OS’s that it can check for.

vi ./amdgpu-pro-install

Scroll down to line 147 where is says

ubuntu|linuxmint|debian)

and change it to 

ubuntu|linuxmint|debian|kali)

The code function should look like the following.

142 function os_release() {
143         if [[ -r  /etc/os-release ]]; then
144                 . /etc/os-release
145
146                 case "$ID" in
147                 ubuntu|linuxmint|debian|kali)
148                         :
149                         ;;
150                 *)
151                         echo "Unsupported DEB-based OS: `
152                                 `/etc/os-release ID '$ID'" | stderr
153                         exit 1
154                         ;;
155                 esac
156         else
157                 echo "Unsupported OS" | stderr
158                 exit 1
159         fi
160 }

Save a close the file and install the AMD drivers

./amdgpu-pro-install -y --opencl=legacy,rocm --headless

Looking at trying to install AMD drivers for mining? Check out the following link
Install RX 580 Mining Drivers on Debian Based Distributions

More info on Stack Exchange
https://elementaryos.stackexchange.com/questions/24282/cant-install-amd-drivers-on-elementaryos-hera-unsupported-deb-based-os

Install Microsoft Precision Drivers on Alienware 13 R3

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https://www.howtogeek.com/325347/how-to-enable-microsofts-precision-touchpad-drivers-on-your-laptop/

Download and extract the Lenovo driver
https://download.lenovo.com/pccbbs/mobiles/n1mgx14w.zip

Open Device manager, right click on the touchpad and select Update driver

Update Touchpad driver

Browse My computer for Driver Software

Let me pick from a list of available drivers on my computer

On the pop up select have disk

Navigate to the extracted Lenovo driver and select Autorun.inf

Open, select next, install, accept the warning

  • Select Thinkpad
  • Installing Windows Precision drivers warning
  • Installing Windows Precision drivers
  • Windows Precision drivers installed. Need to reboot now.
Restart computer

After you restart your computer you can go to the Windows settings and tweak the precision settings

Windows 10 precision touchpad settings

Other interesting touch pad stuff

https://www.multiswipe.com