Friday, November 20, 2009

SOLVED Fedora 12 + Nvidia installation problems

If you’re having trouble with Fedora 12 and the proprietary Nvidia driver, read on….

If you’re wanting to use the nvidia proprietary driver, rather than the nouveau driver provided by default in Fedora 11+, then do the following (minus the quotations):
1. Add this to the end of the kernel line in /etc/grub.conf -> “nouveau.modeset=0 vga=0×318″
2. command: ” su -c ‘rpm -Uvh http://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/rpmfusion-free-release-stable.noarch.rpm http://download1.rpmfusion.org/nonfree/fedora/rpmfusion-nonfree-release-stable.noarch.rpm’ ”
3. Command: “yum update && yum install kmod-nvidia”
4. Reboot
5. You’re done !
(For searching purposes….) Here’s the error you’re likely to receive if trying to install the nvidia package, provided by nvidia…
This can occur when a driver such as rivafb, nvidiafb or rivatv was loaded and obtained ownership of the NVIDIA device(s). Try unloading the rivafb, nvidiafb or rivatv kernel module
(source:http://linuxsoftwareblog.com/blog/?p=232)

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