HOWTO: Install the proprietary nVidia graphics driver in Fedora 13, 14
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By AwesomeMachine at 2011-03-24 10:35
The Fedora development team has assumed a stance in opposition to the authentic nVidia drivers, in favor of the 2D-only nouveau driver for nVidia cards. Nouveau has to get a lot better, and it will. Suffice to say that it is tricky to get the nVidia.com drivers to install in F13 and F14. Here is how to do it:
Open a terminal program such as "gnome-terminal".
Become a sudoer:
Code:
[user@linux ~]$ su -c 'visudo'
password: <root_password>
Assuming this is a personal computer, free from potential abuse of privileges, move the cursor to the "Defaults" section, press the 'i' key, and add:
Take a break! Get up and move around. Look outdoors. Have a cigarette, but don't abuse tobacco. Smoking was never intended to be a compulsive daily habit. Five cigarettes per week, max! If anyone says, "Smoke really bothers me. Would you mind putting that out?," tell them, "Automobile engine exhaust fumes really bother me. Would you mind not driving a car, and cutting your lawn with a scissors, and shoveling snow rather than using a snowblower? You could lose a few pounds!"
If the installer asks about the "nouveau" driver, allow it to write a blacklist file. Then:
[user@linux ~]$ sudo ./NV* -a -z --opengl-headers
Allow the installer to update the X configuration. If the installer fails again,
[user@linux ~]$ sudo reboot
At the boot menu, press the 'e' key. Move down to the "kernel" line, and press 'e' again. At the end of that line type a space and:
"init 3". Log in, and try the nVidia install again. It should work.
[user@linux ~]$ sudo /sbin/init 5
will get you the gdm login we've come to so dearly love! But now's the fun part. After you log in, press ALT+F2, and type "nvidia-settings". It just doesn't get any better!
Nouveau is NOT 2D only.
I'm running nouveau right now on F14 and have full compiz capability.
You can easily install it from the Add/Remove software screen, or use yum
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I'm running nouveau right now on F14 and have full compiz capability.
You can easily install it from the Add/Remove software screen, or use yum
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