Looking Fedora 22/21 nVidia Drivers Install Guide?
I’ve tried this method in few Fedora 12 and Fedora 13 machine, and looks like it is working. Nouveau has been enabled by default starting from Fedora 11 and looks like nouveau cause some problems on Fedora 12 and Fedora 13, when try to use nVidia proprietary driver.
Note: nVidia proprietary drivers on Fedora 12 and Fedora 13 does not support older cards than GeForce 6 cards (except for some exceptions, check this comment).
Install nVidia driver and disable nouveau
Run the following commands as root.
Enable access to both the free and the nonfree RPM Fusion repository
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
Update system and repositories
yum updateInstall kmod-nvidia or kmod-nvidia-PAE if you are using PAE (Physical Address Extension) kernel
yum install kmod-nvidiayum install kmod-nvidia-PAENote: this step is now done automatically by the RPM Fusion RPMs.
Allow nVidia driver loading and set SElinux allow_execstack on
setsebool -P allow_execstack onNote: this step is now done automatically by the RPM Fusion RPMs.
Disable nouveau, add following to grub.conf (/boot/grub/grub.conf or /etc/grub.conf) end of the “kernel” line
rdblacklist=nouveauExample:
title Fedora (2.6.33.5-112.fc13.x86_64)
root (hd0,0)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.33.5-112.fc13.x86_64 ro root=/dev/mapper/vg_fedorabox-LogVol01 rd_LVM_LV=vg_fedorabox/LogVol01 rd_LVM_LV=vg_fedorabox/LogVol00 rd_NO_LUKS rd_NO_MD rd_NO_DM LANG=en_US.UTF-8 SYSFONT=latarcyrheb-sun16 KEYBOARDTYPE=pc KEYTABLE=en rhgb quiet rdblacklist=nouveau
initrd /initramfs-2.6.33.5-112.fc13.x86_64.img
Reboot system
rebootAnd finally nVidia driver should work normally.
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