Fedora 15 nVidia Drivers Install Guide (disable nouveau driver) - Comment Page: 1

Updated on September 16, 2015 by JR 126 comments

Looking Fedora 22/21 nVidia Drivers Install Guide? [inttf_post_ad1] This is guide, howto install nVidia proprietary drivers on Fedora 15 and disable Nouveau driver. This guide works with GeForce 6/7/8/9/200/300 series cards and also with GeForce FX cards. Fedora 15 nVidia driver installation is not much different from previous Fedora versions. I have tested this guide with a couple computers, so let me know, if you have some problems. Install nVidia proprietary drivers on Fedora 15 and disable the nouveau driver 1. Change root user su - ## OR ## sudo -i 2. Make sure that you are running latest kernel If not then update kernel and reboot yum update...

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KING SABRI
27th May 2011, 1:44 pm

Hola ,,
Absolutely awesome web site ,, and great effort

BTW,, I’m using nVIDIA GeForce 210 rev2 and the “nouveau” driver is working very well

so I encourage people to test it before using nVidia driver.

regards and respect
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alexd
27th May 2011, 5:17 pm

thank you a lot,
I tried installing nvidia drivers from other blogs, but everything failed.
And btw I know that fedora is a community linux, but to be so hard to use nvidia drivers is unacceptable. Series 400 that I have, doesn’t work on nouveau. So it would be better if nouveau drivers won’t be installed as default..

thanx again
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Tarnus
27th May 2011, 6:11 pm

Unfortunatly, this didn’t work for me :/
When I try to boot, it stops after the loading-bar
I’m using a 9800GTX
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Tarnus
27th May 2011, 6:14 pm

Forgot to say, i used akmod-nvidia
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Tarnus
27th May 2011, 6:20 pm

Just did a kernel-update, worked after that :)
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- JR
  30th May 2011, 5:01 pm
  
  Hi Tarnus,
  
  Excellent! :)
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- viceyo
  31st May 2011, 6:00 am
  
  Hello Tarnus,
  
  I’m having the same problem here (it just freezes while loading). What command exactly did you run to fix it?
  
  When I try to update something it just says that there are no updates available.
  
  I used akmod-nvidia-PAE.
  My kernel is 2.6.38.6.27.fc15.i686.PAE
  
  BTW. I had to remove the xorg.conf generated by the nvidia-xconfig and re-enable the nouveau driver in the grub.conf to be able to start my system and do something.
  
  Please, help!!!
  
  Thanks
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  - viceyo
    31st May 2011, 7:11 am
    
    Ok, I just got it working.
    
    I saw that the nouveau driver was being loaded despite of the grub.conf modification.
    
    So, I checked to see if I could blacklist it in a different way.
    
    There was already a file /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist-nouveau.conf and I found the following instructions:
    
    “you need to run as root:
    dracut -f /boot/initramfs-$(uname -r).img $(uname -r)
    if nouveau is loaded despite this file.”
    
    So, I did, and it finally worked!!!
    
    Thanks anyway.
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f15
27th May 2011, 7:46 pm

I’m getting the following when I enter “yum install kmod-nvidia-173xx xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-173xx-libs.i686”:

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- JR
  30th May 2011, 5:02 pm
  
  Hi f15,
  
  Could you post again, what you get?
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Pachuca
27th May 2011, 9:34 pm

I installed the PAE kernel option, but i got

yum install kernel-PAE-devel kmod-nvidia-PAE
Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, langpacks, presto, refresh-packagekit
Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
* fedora: mirrors.servercentral.net
* livna: rpm.livna.org
* rpmfusion-free-rawhide: mirrors.cat.pdx.edu
* rpmfusion-nonfree-rawhide: mirrors.cat.pdx.edu
* updates: mirrors.servercentral.net
Setting up Install Process
Package kernel-PAE-devel-2.6.38.6-27.fc15.i686 already installed and latest version
Resolving Dependencies
–> Running transaction check
—> Package kmod-nvidia-PAE.i686 1:270.41.06-1.fc15 will be installed
–> Processing Dependency: kmod-nvidia-2.6.38.3-18.fc15.i686.PAE >= 1:270.41.06-1.fc15 for package: 1:kmod-nvidia-PAE-270.41.06-1.fc15.i686
–> Running transaction check
—> Package kmod-nvidia-2.6.38.3-18.fc15.i686.PAE.i686 1:270.41.06-1.fc15 will be installed
–> Processing Dependency: kernel-uname-r = 2.6.38.3-18.fc15.i686.PAE for package: 1:kmod-nvidia-2.6.38.3-18.fc15.i686.PAE-270.41.06-1.fc15.i686
–> Processing Dependency: nvidia-kmod-common >= 1:270.41.06 for package: 1:kmod-nvidia-2.6.38.3-18.fc15.i686.PAE-270.41.06-1.fc15.i686
–> Running transaction check
—> Package kmod-nvidia-2.6.38.3-18.fc15.i686.PAE.i686 1:270.41.06-1.fc15 will be installed
–> Processing Dependency: kernel-uname-r = 2.6.38.3-18.fc15.i686.PAE for package: 1:kmod-nvidia-2.6.38.3-18.fc15.i686.PAE-270.41.06-1.fc15.i686
—> Package xorg-x11-drv-nvidia.i686 1:270.41.06-1.fc15 will be installed
–> Processing Dependency: xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-libs(x86-32) = 1:270.41.06-1.fc15 for package: 1:xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-270.41.06-1.fc15.i686
–> Processing Dependency: libnvidia-glcore.so.270.41.06 for package: 1:xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-270.41.06-1.fc15.i686
–> Processing Dependency: nvidia-settings for package: 1:xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-270.41.06-1.fc15.i686
–> Processing Dependency: libnvidia-ml.so.1 for package: 1:xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-270.41.06-1.fc15.i686
–> Processing Dependency: nvidia-xconfig for package: 1:xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-270.41.06-1.fc15.i686
–> Running transaction check
—> Package kmod-nvidia-2.6.38.3-18.fc15.i686.PAE.i686 1:270.41.06-1.fc15 will be installed
–> Processing Dependency: kernel-uname-r = 2.6.38.3-18.fc15.i686.PAE for package: 1:kmod-nvidia-2.6.38.3-18.fc15.i686.PAE-270.41.06-1.fc15.i686
—> Package nvidia-settings.i686 0:1.0-10.fc15 will be installed
—> Package nvidia-xconfig.i686 0:1.0-8.fc15 will be installed
—> Package xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-libs.i686 1:270.41.06-1.fc15 will be installed
–> Finished Dependency Resolution
Error: Package: 1:kmod-nvidia-2.6.38.3-18.fc15.i686.PAE-270.41.06-1.fc15.i686 (rpmfusion-nonfree-rawhide)
Requires: kernel-uname-r = 2.6.38.3-18.fc15.i686.PAE
Installed: kernel-PAE-2.6.38.6-26.rc1.fc15.i686 (@anaconda-InstallationRepo-201105131946.i686)
kernel-uname-r = 2.6.38.6-26.rc1.fc15.i686.PAE
Installed: kernel-PAE-2.6.38.6-27.fc15.i686 (@updates)
kernel-uname-r = 2.6.38.6-27.fc15.i686.PAE
Available: kernel-2.6.38.6-26.rc1.fc15.i686 (fedora)
kernel-uname-r = 2.6.38.6-26.rc1.fc15.i686
Available: kernel-2.6.38.6-27.fc15.i686 (updates)
kernel-uname-r = 2.6.38.6-27.fc15.i686
Available: kernel-PAEdebug-2.6.38.6-26.rc1.fc15.i686 (fedora)
kernel-uname-r = 2.6.38.6-26.rc1.fc15.i686.PAEdebug
Available: kernel-PAEdebug-2.6.38.6-27.fc15.i686 (updates)
kernel-uname-r = 2.6.38.6-27.fc15.i686.PAEdebug
Available: kernel-debug-2.6.38.6-26.rc1.fc15.i686 (fedora)
kernel-uname-r = 2.6.38.6-26.rc1.fc15.i686.debug
Available: kernel-debug-2.6.38.6-27.fc15.i686 (updates)
kernel-uname-r = 2.6.38.6-27.fc15.i686.debug
You could try using –skip-broken to work around the problem
You could try running: rpm -Va –nofiles –nodigest

so how can I fix the error. Thanks. :D
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- JR
  30th May 2011, 5:11 pm
  
  Hi Pachuca,
  
  Actually you have different kernel installed (kernel-PAE-2.6.38.6-27.fc15.i686) than kmod-nvidia-PAE (kmod-nvidia-2.6.38.3-18.fc15.i686.PAE-270.41.06-1.fc15.i686). So you have to install same kernel version or use akmod-nvidia.
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Durden
28th May 2011, 3:21 am

Sorry but these instructions do not work on either of my nvidia GTX 460 machines:

Error: Package: 1:kmod-nvidia-2.6.38.3-18.fc15.i686-270.41.06-1.fc15.i686 (rpmfusion-nonfree-rawhide) Requires: kernel-uname-r = 2.6.38.3-18.fc15.i686 Installed: kernel-2.6.38.6-26.rc1.fc15.i686 (@koji-override-1/$releasever) kernel-uname-r = 2.6.38.6-26.rc1.fc15.i686 Installed: kernel-2.6.38.6-27.fc15.i686 (@updates) kernel-uname-r = 2.6.38.6-27.fc15.i686 Available: kernel-PAE-2.6.38.6-26.rc1.fc15.i686 (fedora) kernel-uname-r = 2.6.38.6-26.rc1.fc15.i686.PAE Available: kernel-PAE-2.6.38.6-27.fc15.i686 (updates) kernel-uname-r = 2.6.38.6-27.fc15.i686.PAE Available: kernel-PAEdebug-2.6.38.6-26.rc1.fc15.i686 (fedora) kernel-uname-r = 2.6.38.6-26.rc1.fc15.i686.PAEdebug Available: kernel-PAEdebug-2.6.38.6-27.fc15.i686 (updates) kernel-uname-r = 2.6.38.6-27.fc15.i686.PAEdebug Available: kernel-debug-2.6.38.6-26.rc1.fc15.i686 (fedora) kernel-uname-r = 2.6.38.6-26.rc1.fc15.i686.debug Available: kernel-debug-2.6.38.6-27.fc15.i686 (updates) kernel-uname-r = 2.6.38.6-27.fc15.i686.debug You could try using --skip-broken to work around the problem You could try running: rpm -Va --nofiles --nodigest
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- JR
  30th May 2011, 5:13 pm
  
  Hi Durden,
  
  Check my previous answer to Pachuca.
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New Fedora User
28th May 2011, 5:28 pm

I want to thank you for putting this information on your website. It helped me alot!
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Kano
28th May 2011, 8:06 pm

It worked for me but now the boot screen is gone.
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- JR
  30th May 2011, 5:14 pm
  
  Hi Kano,
  
  Do you mean Grub screen when your machine starts?
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RussianMonk
29th May 2011, 2:17 am

Awesome site. I used your guide to install my driver for fedora 14 also.

I have a nvidia 8400m

The only issue is that your software update links have changed
rpmfusion-free-release-15-0.1.noarch.rpm
rpmfusion-nonfree-release-15-0.1.noarch.rpm

it is now
rpmfusion-free-release-15-1.noarch.rpm
rpmfusion-nonfree-release-15-1.noarch.rpm

Also when I installed the first driver kmod-nvidia I got the black screen even after checking /boot/grub/grub.conf

I recommended everyone uses the akmod, worked PERFECT!!!

Side note you may want to add that there are x86_64/ available for people that use 64bit. That is what I used. Thanks again!
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- JR
  30th May 2011, 5:17 pm
  
  Hi RussianMonk,
  
  Thanks! :)
  
  I added new rpms and also 64-bit rpms.
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David P.
29th May 2011, 11:23 am

I love if- !1-0 ! Thank you!
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- JR
  30th May 2011, 5:20 pm
  
  Hi David P,
  
  Thank you and you are welcome. :)
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Roi
29th May 2011, 2:11 pm

I got a 404 for the rpmfusion files.
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- JR
  30th May 2011, 5:21 pm
  
  Hi Roi,
  
  Updated RPMFusion rpms and should work now!
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James
29th May 2011, 5:29 pm

The RPMFusion Repositories have been updated:

rpm -Uvh http://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/development/x86_64/os/rpmfusion-free-release-15-1.noarch.rpm
rpm -Uvh http://download1.rpmfusion.org/nonfree/fedora/development/x86_64/os/rpmfusion-nonfree-release-15-1.noarch.rpm
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- JR
  30th May 2011, 5:22 pm
  
  Hi James,
  
  And thanks!
  
  I updated guide and added new rpms and also separated 64-bit rpms! :)
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Sudarshan Bhattacharjee
1st June 2011, 9:13 am

Hi I have followed all the instructions, however when I reboot after checking grub.conf it just hangs after few seconds and does not allow me to log in or do anything.

Any suggestion would realy help.

Thanks
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- JR
  1st June 2011, 3:34 pm
  
  Hi Sudarshan Bhattacharjee,
  
  So is it hanging when X is starting?
  
  You could try to boot runlevel 3 and check that the nvidia module is loaded and check that nouveau module is not loaded and then start X manually.
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