Fedora 19 nVidia Drivers Install / Uninstall Guide

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This is guide, howto install nVidia proprietary drivers on Fedora 19 “Schrödinger’s Cat” and disable Nouveau driver. This guide works with GeForce 6/7/8/9/200/300/400/500/600/700 series cards. Older GeForce series cards works with 304.xx nVidia drivers and newer 8/9/200/300/400/500/600/700 series cards works with 331.xx nVidia drivers.

Fedora 19 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.

1. Before nVidia drivers installation⌗

1.1 Check is your nVidia card supported⌗

lspci |grep -i VGA

## Example output ##
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation GT218 [GeForce G210] (rev a2)

List of Supported NVIDIA GPU Products, if your card found before 304.xx section, then use 331.xx drivers and if under 304.xx section, then use 304.xx drivers.

1.2 NVIDIA Optimus Technology⌗

If your lspci |grep -i VGA output looks like following:

00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 2n Generation Core Processor Family Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 09)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation GF106 [GeForce GT 555M SDDR3] (rev a1)

Or you know that your computer have NVIDIA Optimus Technology, and it is impossible to turn Intel Graphics / NVIDIA Optimus off in the BIOS then this guide is not working on your system. Check If !1 0 forums user Viger guide instead Fedora 19 for NVIDIA Optimus users (with Nvidia driver or Bumblebee).

2. Install nVidia proprietary drivers on Fedora 19 “Schrödinger’s Cat” and disable the nouveau driver⌗

2.1 Change root user⌗

su -
## OR ##
sudo -i

2.2 Make sure that you are running latest kernel and have latest SELinux policy packages⌗

If not then update kernel and reboot

yum update kernel* selinux-policy*
reboot

2.3 Add RPMFusion Repositories (Free and Non-Free)⌗

32-bit and 64-bit

yum localinstall --nogpgcheck http://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/rpmfusion-free-release-$(rpm -E %fedora).noarch.rpm http://download1.rpmfusion.org/nonfree/fedora/rpmfusion-nonfree-release-$(rpm -E %fedora).noarch.rpm

## OR ##

yum localinstall --nogpgcheck http://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/rpmfusion-free-release-$(rpm -E %fedora).noarch.rpm
yum localinstall --nogpgcheck http://download1.rpmfusion.org/nonfree/fedora/rpmfusion-nonfree-release-$(rpm -E %fedora).noarch.rpm

2.4 Install nVidia proprietary drivers for GeForce 6/7/8/9/200/300/400/500/600/700 series cards⌗

Select akmod, kmod from following.

akmod-nvidia for GeForce 8/9/200/300/400/500/600/700 series cards⌗

yum install akmod-nvidia xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-libs kernel-devel acpid

akmod-nvidia-304xx for GeForce 6/7 series cards⌗

yum install akmod-nvidia-304xx xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-304xx-libs kernel-devel acpid

Extra package for kernel-PAE users

yum install kernel-PAE-devel

kmod-nvidia for GeForce 8/9/200/300/400/500/600/700 series cards⌗

yum install kmod-nvidia xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-libs acpid

kmod-nvidia-304xx for GeForce 6/7 series cards⌗

yum install kmod-nvidia-304xx xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-304xx-libs acpid

akmod is good option and easy way avoid problems on kernel updates and is best and only option if you use:

self-compiled kernel
older Fedora kernel
quickly changing kernels from updates-testing/rawhide

Full spec of kmod and akmod differences, check this.

2.5 Remove / disable nouveau drivers from kernel initramfs⌗

## Backup old initramfs nouveau image ##
mv /boot/initramfs-$(uname -r).img /boot/initramfs-$(uname -r)-nouveau.img

## Create new initramfs image ##
dracut /boot/initramfs-$(uname -r).img $(uname -r)

2.6 All is done and then just reboot⌗

reboot

2.7 VDPAU/VAAPI support⌗

To enable video acceleration support for your player (Note: you need Geforce 8 or later).

yum install vdpauinfo libva-vdpau-driver libva-utils

3. Uninstall nVidia proprietary drivers on Fedora 19 “Schrödinger’s Cat” and enable the nouveau driver⌗

I assume that you installed nVidia driver with this guide, then do following.

3.1 Change root user⌗

su -
## OR ##
sudo -i

3.2 Uninstall nVidia Driver Packages⌗

yum remove xorg-x11-drv-nvidia\* nvidia-settings nvidia-xconfig

3.3 Then Reboot System⌗

reboot