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How to install Nvidia drivers in Fedora 17 Beefy miracle

Written by Mel Kham on . Posted in Fedora, Linux tutorials

Updated 31/05/2012 Question: How to install Nvidia drivers in Fedora14, 15, 16 and Fedora 17 Beefy miracle?nvidia_logo

Answer (Tested in Fedora 17 Beefy Miracle):

In order to install Nvidia propriety drivers in Fedora 13, 14, 15, 16 and Fedora 17 Beefy miracle, you need first to add RPM Fusion free and non free repositories, please choose follow the instructions bellow:

1. First make sure to update the kernel and reboot after update is complete.

su yum update kernel*reboot

 

2. 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 ), please use the installation that correspond to your Nvidia card version.

For GeForce 6, 7, 8, 9, 200, 300, 400 & 500 series cards 

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

Now install Nvidia drivers:

yum install kmod-nvidia  xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-libs.i686

Or akmod : Using akmod-nvidia instead of kmod-nvidia will make the system automatically build the nvidia driver for your kernel if no pre-built binary is available. This can avoid confusing situations where X will not start after a kernel update. akmod builds the required kmod on bootup. Thanks to (vcato)

yum install akmod-nvidia  xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-libs.i686
  • If you use a PAE kernel

su

rpm -Uvh   http://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/rpmfusion-free-release-stable.noarch.rpm

For questions please refer to our Q/A forum at : http://ask.unixmen.com

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19 Comment(s)

Mel Kham

Founder of Unixmen, Living in Amsterdam. Am working in my free time to help people to understand the Opensource and to explain them in easy way how to make the fist steps to the the light. Working day and night with my Co-founder Zinovsky to keep this website live even with less resources.
  • vcato

    Sometimes the rpmfusion repositories don’t have new versions of kmod-nvidia available that match new releases of the kernel. Using akmod-nvidia instead of kmod-nvidia will make the system automatically build the nvidia driver for your kernel if no pre-built binary is available. This can avoid confusing situations where X will not start after a kernel update.

    • Zinovsky

      Thanks Vcato, i updated the post.

  • http://enteryoursiteURL... yum

    I agree with Vcato – "akmod-nvidia" method works much better.

  • Adi

    Fedora 14
    installed..everything went smoothly.
    rebooted
    pressed del while booting up so that I can see whats happening.
    everything stops at jexec services !!!
    ne idea
    Thanks

    • yum

      Did you use kmod or akmod method?

    • yum

      It seems like jexec is java service,
      check this out [url=]http://forums.opensuse.org/english/get-help-here/pre-release-beta/401012-11-1rc1-boot-stuck-jexec.html[/url] and [url=]http://forums.opensuse.org/english/get-help-here/pre-release-beta/401012-11-1rc1-boot-stuck-jexec.html[/url]

  • Adi

    I used akmod

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  • ploup

    what about 64bits systems?

  • zeeman

    nvidia is now in download repertory of fedora. just find it on add/remove a program

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    When you’re in uncomfortable position and have no cash to get out from that, you would have to receive the mortgage loans. Because it should help you unquestionably. I get sba loan every time I need and feel OK just because of this.

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    If you are willing to buy a car, you would have to get the business loans. Moreover, my sister commonly utilizes a financial loan, which is the most rapid.

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    Some specialists say that credit loans aid people to live the way they want, because they are able to feel free to buy needed stuff. Furthermore, a lot of banks present commercial loan for different classes of people.

  • Vince

    Doesn’t work.  Have to use noapic to get to plymouth boot but gnome doesn’t start.

  • http://sites.google.com/site/tomihasa/ Tomi Häsä

    Instructions: “you need first to add RPM Fusion free and non free repositories”

    Do I have to pay for the non-free repos? I don’t have a credit card, but I do have PayPal.

    Instructions: “you will probably have a PAE kernel [32bit only]”

    Fedora 17 is 64-bit by default, so do I have to do something about that?

    • Mick Smothers

      Re: pay for the non-free repos: No, it is free as in beer. The non-free means the contents are proprietary, license-encumbered. They still don’t cost any money.

  • Mauro Belgiovine

    what about NVIDIA development driver in Fedora 17? Every time i try to install the latest nvidia dev-driver (295.41), installation fails saying that it can’t create the relative kernel module..

  • Robert Gammoln

     the 64 bit drivers for the 64 bit kernel are downloadable merley substitute x86_64 for i686 on the lines above

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