I was following this tutorial on How install the rpmfusion nvidia drivers in Fedora 13:
http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=204752
Here's the tutorial:
Quote:
Originally Posted by leigh123linux
F13 Howto for the rpmfusion nvidia drivers
This is a Three-Step Process. If you don't follow all three steps, your install will fail!
1. Install the nvidia driver. ( if you have 4Gb of RAM or more you will probably have a PAE kernel [32bit only] so follow the PAE part )
For GeForce 6, 7, 8, 9, 200 & 300 series cards
Code:
su
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
yum install kmod-nvidia xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-libs.i686
If you use a PAE kernel
Code:
su
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
yum install kmod-nvidia-PAE
Or (akmod builds the required kmod on bootup )
Code:
su
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
yum install akmod-nvidia xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-libs.i686
2. Edit grub.conf ( if you omit this step the driver will fail to work )
this command adds rdblacklist=nouveau option to /boot/grub/grub.conf
Code:
su -
sed -i '/root=/s|$| rdblacklist=nouveau|' /boot/grub/grub.conf
mv /boot/initramfs-$(uname -r).img /boot/initramfs-$(uname -r)-nouveau.img
dracut /boot/initramfs-$(uname -r).img $(uname -r)
3. Reboot
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And this is what I did:
First I executed the following commands:
Code:
su
rpm -Uvh http://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/rpmfusion-free-release-stable.noarch.rpm http://download1.rpmfusion.org/nonfree/fedora/rpmfusion-nonfree-release-stable.noarch.rpm
yum install kmod-nvidia xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-libs.i686
Then In step 2 I executed the following commands:
First:
Code:
sed -i '/root=/s|$| rdblacklist=nouveau|' /boot/grub/grub.conf
Then this one:
Code:
mv /boot/initramfs-$(uname -r).img /boot/initramfs-$(uname -r)-nouveau.img
And when I got to this one:
Code:
dracut /boot/initramfs-$(uname -r).img $(uname -r)
I got this message:
Will not override existing initramfs (/boot/initramfs-2.6.33.3-85.fc13.x86_64.img) without --force
So I kinda ignored that command and restarted my computer and that's when I received this message:
Quote:
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RAMDISK: EOF while reading compressed data uncompression error Kernel panic - not syncing Unable to mount root fs on unknown block (0,0)
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[COLOR="Silver"]
============= I used a FedoraDVD/Rescue Option to access my system:
Here's my grub.conf file (boot/grub/grub.conf):
Quote:
#boot=/dev/sda
default=0
timeout=0
splashimage=(hd0,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
hiddenmenu
title Fedora (2.6.33.6-147.fc13.x86_64 ro root=/dev/mapper/vg_wmxwrkst-lv_root rd_LVM_LV=vg_wmxwrkst/lv_root rd_LVM_LV=vg_wmxwrkst/lv_swap rd_NO_LUKS rd_NO_MD rd_NO_DM LANG=en_US.UTF-8 SYSFONT=latarcyrgeb-sun16 KEYTABLE=us rhgb quiet nouveau.modest=0 rdblacklist=nouveau
initrd /initramfs-2.6.33.6-147.fc13.x86_64.img
title Fedora (2.6.33.3-85.fc13.x86_64 ro root=/dev/mapper/vg_wmxwrkst-lv_root rd_LVM_LV=vg_wmxwrkst/lv_root rd_LVM_LV=vg_wmxwrkst/lv_swap rd_NO_LUKS rd_NO_MD rd_NO_DM LANG=en_US.UTF-8 SYSFONT=latarcyrgeb-sun16 KEYTABLE=us rhgb quiet rdblacklist=nouveau
initrd /initramfs-2.6.33.3-85.fc13.x86_64.img
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When I execute the command:
uname -a I get the following:
Linux localhost.localdomain 2.6.33.3-85.fc13.x86_64 ...
