Properly install Nvidia Drivers

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Very simple, try it:

Checking if your nVidia graphics card is supported

From a terminal

lspci |grep -i VGA

you should check if you are in the list of supported cards (check only those that belong to the GeForce 6/7/8/9/200/300/400/500) HERE

IF your nVidia graphics card is in the list above, you can proceed with the following instructions.

su

yum -y update

Add rpmfusion repositories (Free and Non-Free)

yum -y localinstall --nogpgcheck http://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/rpmfusion-free-release-branched.noarch.rpm

yum -y localinstall --nogpgcheck http://download1.rpmfusion.org/nonfree/fedora/rpmfusion-nonfree-release-branched.noarch.rpm


yum install akmod-nvidia xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-libs

Only if you have a kernel-PAE

yum install kernel-PAE-devel

Remove initramfs Nouveau

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

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

nvidia-xconfig



reboot

question for older 304.108.xx on kernel 3.11

Running tri boot wind 7 64 / Mint 64 and Fedora 64 but can't get nvidia drivers to hold only on fedora 20 design 64 following is my inxi xG output

[neo@matrix ~]$ modprobe nvidia -v -D modprobe: FATAL: Module nvidia not found. [neo@matrix ~]$ modprobe nouveau -v -D insmod /lib/modules/3.11.10-301.fc20.x86_64/kernel/drivers/i2c/i2c-core.ko insmod /lib/modules/3.11.10-301.fc20.x86_64/kernel/drivers/gpu/drm/drm.ko insmod /lib/modules/3.11.10-301.fc20.x86_64/kernel/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_kms_helper.ko insmod /lib/modules/3.11.10-301.fc20.x86_64/kernel/drivers/gpu/drm/ttm/ttm.ko insmod /lib/modules/3.11.10-301.fc20.x86_64/kernel/drivers/i2c/algos/i2c-algo-bit.ko insmod /lib/modules/3.11.10-301.fc20.x86_64/kernel/drivers/acpi/video.ko insmod /lib/modules/3.11.10-301.fc20.x86_64/kernel/drivers/platform/x86/wmi.ko insmod /lib/modules/3.11.10-301.fc20.x86_64/kernel/drivers/platform/x86/mxm-wmi.ko insmod /lib/modules/3.11.10-301.fc20.x86_64/kernel/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau.ko

running nvidia 304.108 oubuntu1 on mint 64 via driver manager after forcing rendering mode and blacklisting but can't find necessary drivers or tut for fedora thanks in advance

Help please! I had blank screen when I booted the F18 kernels but still OK with F17 kernel after upgrade.

I followed DavidA instructions above but now I get blank screen with the F17 kernel as well and I want to reverse the changes -please could someone advise me what commands I need to do this?