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Installing Nvidia drivers on Fedora
05/06/11
07:31:00 am, by richard 
, 213 words 
Categories: Fedora, Installing and Configuration, Apache Web Server
Installing Nvidia drivers on Fedora
To use the drivers provided by non-free Nvidia drivers rather than the default drivers provided by in Fedora. We have to install the Nvidia drivers and disable the Fedora drivers;
If you haven't already done so enable the rpm repositories provided by Rpmfusion. They provide two
- free for Open Source Software (as defined by the Fedora Licensing Guidelines) which the Fedora project cannot ship due to other reasons
- non-free for re distributable software that is not Open Source Software (as defined by the Fedora Licensing Guidelines); this includes software with publicly available source-code that has "no commercial use"-like restrictions
Make sure your Fedora installation is up to date.
sudo yum update
I use a 64-bit install so I used the following to install the Nvidia drivers
sudo yum install kmod-nvidia xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-libs.i686 xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-libs.x86_64
If you use 32-bit you have a choice depending on which kernel use are running with:
For 32bit default Kernel
sudo yum install kmod-nvidia xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-libs.i686
For 32bit PAE kernel
sudo yum install kmod-nvidia-PAE.i686 xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-libs.i686
Add one of the following to the Kernel line in /etc/grub/grub.conf
/etc/grub/grub.conf
rdblacklist=nouveau nouveau.modeset=0 vga=0x31B
rdblacklist=nouveau vga=0x31B
nouveau.modeset=0 vga=0x31B
rdblacklist=nouveau vga=0x31B
nouveau.modeset=0 vga=0x31B
You might like to use a different resolution fort he startup screen here are some common ones;
1600x1200 - 346
1280x1024 - 31B
1400x1050 - 348
1024x768 - 318
800x600 - 315
1280x1024 - 31B
1400x1050 - 348
1024x768 - 318
800x600 - 315
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