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Well, I am having a Nvidia GTX 460 graphics card installed in my system with Windows 7 running as well. I have also installed Fedora 15 on my system but I am looking for a way how to install the nvidia drivers on this operating system. Is it really simple to install the nvidia drivers on this linux system. If so then can anyone tell me a step by step procedure how to do it? Thanks
First of all try to updae the ketnel and then restart:
Now install the right nvidia driver for your graphics card. You can use akmod which is the best option since you dont get any issues when a new kernel is released:Code:su
yum update kernel\* selinux-policy\*
reboot
After that ensure to remove nouveau from initramfs:Code:su
yum --nogpgcheck install 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-304xx xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-304xx-libs.i686
Now simply restart your pc. Thats itCode:su
mv /boot/initramfs-$(uname -r).img /boot/initramfs-$(uname -r)-nouveau.img
dracut /boot/initramfs-$(uname -r).img $(uname -r)
I have recently made a clean installation of Fedora 15 on my pc. After that I tried to install nvidia drivers using AKmod but when trying to install the PAE it started giving me some kind of errors. When I restart the pc then it will only go to the point where splash screen loads up fedora icon and will stay on it, I wont get any login window. I have also tried to get this to work with the release candidate but still the same thing happens.
Well, I am using F15_64 with RPMFusion Free along with the nonfree repositories. I also used the akmod so that the driver can automatically recompile with each kernel update. You can try to follow the below link that might solve the issue of installing the drivers. It is for Fedora 14 but it still works with Fedora 15.