How to disable Nouveau, and install Nvidia.

asked 2015-03-29 19:15:16 -0600

mikaelbrun
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updated 2015-03-30 05:29:04 -0600

FranciscoD_
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I installed Fedora 21 a week ago. The first impression was very good, and still is.

Some problems occurred, and I had to make a reinstall. The last install, I also installed Nvidia drivers, with a little help from google. But then my wifi crashed, and I made a new install. Now I'm not able to install Nvidia, because of the nouveau driver. I can't remember what I did last time (I will make a guide next time :-) ), so I need some help.

This has been done (all in su)

yum install gcc kernel-devel

gedit /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf
echo "blacklist nouveau" >> /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf

gedit /etc/sysconfig/grub
added rd.driver.blacklist=nouveau in the GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX= 

grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/grub2/grub

grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/efi/EFI/fedora/grub    (I don't know which is used)

yum remoce xorg-x11-drv-nouveau.x86_64

mv /boot/initramfs-$(uname -r).img /boot/initramfs-$(uname -r)-nouveau.img

dracut /boot/intirams-$(uname -r).img $(uname -r)

systemctl set-default multi-user.target

Well that's about it. What have I forgot, or what have I gone wrong?

I will reinstall and update fedora 21. A step by step instruction would have been nice :-)

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answered 2015-03-30 04:32:42 -0600

matachi

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updated 2015-03-30 09:35:09 -0600

The third-party repository RPM Fusion contains binaries for Nvidia's proprietary drivers, which are very easy to install. See the page http://rpmfusion.org/Howto/nVidia for complete instructions on how to install them.

In my own desktop pc I have an Nvidia 660, and I'm running Fedora 21 Workstation with Nvidia's proprietary drivers. To install the drivers, i did:

Enable (at least) nonfree RPM Fusion, see http://rpmfusion.org/Configuration
Install the drivers:

$ sudo dnf install xorg-x11-drv-nvidia

See http://rpmfusion.org/Package/xorg-x11-drv-nvidia for more information.
If you plan on playing games on Steam etc, you probably also need the 32-bit version of the drivers:

$ sudo dnf install xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-libs.i686

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RPMFusion actually has a page dedicated to Nvidia installation here - you could just point to it in your answer instead of restating what it already has. (Each time the information is restated, there are chances of an error creeping in.)

http://rpmfusion.org/Howto/nVidia