Fedora 15 nVidia Drivers Install Guide (disable nouveau driver) - Comment Page: 5
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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...
This worked like a charm, the first time. Thanks a million!
I bought a second-hand Dell minitower at Deseret Industries for $35. spent $89 to get a refurbished 8400 GS and 2G of RAM at Tigerdirect. Already had a cheapo AOC 931 monitor.
Used your instructions after booting, and now I have a really slick system running FC15, and everything “just works”.
I’m a happy camper. :-)
peace, and happy new (almost) year of the Dragon!
vince
After installing nvidia driver using akmod in 4a and reboot the system, gnome shell is not responding to mouse and keyboard, what’s the problem?
My card is: GeForce Go 7300
Hi Kamal,
Could you change to another virtual console and post output of following commands:
I am getting
Fatal server error
no screens found error
when I use startx command
(EE) [drm] failed to open device
Refusing ot touch device with a bound kernel driver
(EE) open /dev/fb0: no such device
(EE) Screen(s) found but none have a usable configuration
I updated kernel as you described abovem, My spec is DELL workstation T3500 with Quadro 1800 GPU
I will be grateful if you can help
best regards
also the other lsmod information you asked is below
lsmod | grep nouveau
nouveau 754292 0
ttm 61533 1 nouveau
drm_kms_helper 30277 1 nouveau
rrm 213647 3 nouveau,ttm,drm_kms_helper
i2c_algo_bit 5572 1 nouveau
i2c_core 28203 6 nvidia,i2c_i801,nouveau,drm_kms_helper,drm,i2c_a
lgo_bit
mxm_wmi 1741 1 nouveau
video 12388 1 nouveau
rpm -qa *nvidia*
xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-173xx-173.14.31-1.fc15.x86_64
kernel-2.6.41.10-3.fc15.x86_64
nvidia-xconfig-1.0-9.fc15.x86_64
kmod-nvidia-173xx-2.6.41.10-3.fc15.x86_64-173.14.31-1.fc15.x86_64
kernel-devel-2.6.38.6-26.rc1.fc15.x86_64
kernel-headers-2.6.41.10-3.fc15.x86_64
kernel-2.6.38.6-26.rc1.fc15.x86_64
abrt-addon-kerneloops-2.0.2-5.fc15.x86_64
kernel-devel-2.6.10.3.fc15.x86_64
xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-173xx-libs-173.14.31-1.fc15.x86_64
nvidia-settings-1.0-11.fc15.x86_64
xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-173xx-libs-173.14.31-1.fc15.i686
akmod-nvidia-173xx-173.14.31-1.fc15.x86_64
lsm0d | grep nvidia
nvidia 8100306 0
i2c_core 28203 6 nvidia,i2c_i801,nouveau,drm_kms_helper,drm,i2c_a
lgo_bit
Hi yalcin,
Please check that you have blacklisted nouveau, because based on your lsmod outputs, looks like both nouveau and nvidia modules are loaded…
Hi,
Actually I edited grub.conf as you described above.
Anyway I started with a fresh install. This time I didnot update kernel. When I checked grub.conf, the blacklist was added automatically(when I updated kernel it wasnot added). And it works now.
Thank you very much :)
Note: Is there an alternative to kpackagekit, can I use synaptic package manager?
Kindest regards
yalcin
Okay, excellent to hear that you got it working! :)
You could try example yumex (Yum Extender).
Installation:
[…] installed the nDivia nouveau as well. So I forced the system to use the original nDivia, see here http://www.if-not-true-then-false.co…install-guide/ point 5 […]
Thank you!
It worked on my Fedora 16.
I would like to say thank you for this guide. I did this with Fedora 17 nVidia gtx 560ti.
Note: when i installed the nVidia drivers it added the blacklist automatically to my grub.cfg