Nvidia, you SUCK! If you are planning to install the latest official GPU driver for your latest Linux, which means most probably you wanna try CUDA, then please BE WARE! I had installed the 310.xx version of Nvidia Linux driver, which would cause the system hang after image loading if the kernel > 3.7.8. The more frustrating thing is the CUDA’s tight dependency on version of kernel, gcc and glibc. Finally, I have removed the Nvidia’s driver and come back to Nouveau, which is an open source Nvidia driver for Linux and supports the latest kernel (3.7.9-205) smoothly! Again, Nvidia, you SUCK!

0. If CUDA is your target, make sure your GPU card is capable for it.
https://developer.nvidia.com/cuda-gpus

1. If you really wanna install Nvidia’s GPU driver…
vi /etc/default/grub
old stuffs: GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="....quiet rhgb"
after changes: GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="quiet rhgb rdblacklist=nouveau nouveau.modeset=0"
grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/grub2/grub.cfg
reboot
init 3
./yourOfficialNvidiaLinuxDriver
reboot

2. Even you have that driver bitch installed, you are NOT gonna succeed in CUDA…
http://developer.download.nvidia.com/compute/cuda/5_0/rel/docs/CUDA_Toolkit_Release_Notes_And_Errata.txt

**  The CUDA development environment relies on tight integration with the host 
development environment, including the host compiler and C runtime libraries, and is 
therefore only supported on distribution versions that have been qualified for this 
CUDA Toolkit release. 

**  Distributions Currently Supported  

    Distribution       32 64  Kernel                 GCC         GLIBC        
    -----------------  -- --  ---------------------  ----------  -------------
    Fedora 16          X  X   3.1.0-7.fc16           4.6.2       2.14.90      
    ICC Compiler 12.1     X                                                   
    OpenSUSE 12.1         X   3.1.0-1.2-desktop      4.6.2       2.14.1       
    Red Hat RHEL 6.x      X   2.6.32-131.0.15.el6    4.4.5       2.12         
    Red Hat RHEL 5.5+     X   2.6.18-238.el5         4.1.2       2.5          
    SUSE SLES 11 SP2      X   3.0.13-0.27-pae        4.3.4       2.11.3       
    SUSE SLES 11.1     X  X   2.6.32.12-0.7-pae      4.3.4       2.11.1       
    Ubuntu 11.10       X  X   3.0.0-19-generic-pae   4.6.1       2.13         
    Ubuntu 10.04       X  X   2.6.35-23-generic      4.4.5       2.12.1       

**  Distributions No Longer Supported 

    Distribution       32 64  Kernel                 GCC         GLIBC        
    -----------------  -- --  ---------------------  ----------  -------------
    Fedora 14          X  X   2.6.35.6-45            4.5.1       2.12.90      
    ICC Compiler 11.1     X                                                   
    OpenSUSE 11.2      X  X   2.6.31.5-0.1           4.4.1       2.10.1       
    Red Hat RHEL 6.x   X      2.6.32-131.0.15.el6    4.4.5       2.12         
    Red Hat RHEL 5.5+  X      2.6.18-238.el5         4.1.2       2.5          
    Ubuntu 11.04       X  X   2.6.38-8-generic       4.5.2       2.13

3. Yep, sweet, time to remove that Nvidia bitch and back to Nouveau!
Recall the changes within the /etc/default/grub and grub2-mkconfig again and then reboot