[F11] Installing NVIDIA

[Couto]

Hey, I just switched from Ubuntu to Fedora, and I really like it so far, but I'm so used to .deb files now I'm stuck on installing the NVIDIA package I downloaded.

Could you guys give me the commands to run the install?

The package is on my desktop and it's named "NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-190.18-pkg2.run"

Thank you for the help!

[Milena]

Hello

logout and return to the login screen of your display manager, use console login and then you login as root and move to the folder with your nvidia driver. type:

sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-190.18-pkg2.run

and the installer will start (can also use ./ instead of sh). make sure to hit yes when it asks to update your x config files.

note: fedora 11 has its own nvidia implementation called nouveau as well as native nvidia drivers in the repository but i would suggest to stick to the latest driver from nvidia's website, 190.18 is the best they've made so far
ps: for such questions please have a look at the guides & solutions section first: http://forums.fedoraforum.org/forumdisplay.php?f=12

[Golf4Fun]

Substitute your file name for the word filename below and type the commands in a terminal.

chmod a+x filename.run
su -
enter your root password
./filename.run

I am new to fedora but I used this method in Mandriva.

[Couto]

Originally Posted by Golf4Fun

Substitute your file name for the word filename below and type the commands in a terminal.

chmod a+x filename.run
su -
enter your root password
./filename.run

I am new to fedora but I used this method in Mandriva.

This method gives me Bash errors.

[ozjd]

The preferred method in Fedora is to use the drivers from RPMfusion and not direct from nvidia. Have a look at the nvidia link in my signature. Always works for me.

[JohnnyLinux]

http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showpo...69&postcount=1

And BE CAREFUL with kernel upgrades. Fedora introduces new stuff all the time! So whenever you see an update for Nvidia and or the kernel wait a couple of days for the chaos to clear.


http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=227780
http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=204752

Welcome to Fedora.

[ozjd]

Originally Posted by timmywear

http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showpo...69&postcount=1

And BE CAREFUL with kernel upgrades. Fedora introduces new stuff all the time! So whenever you see an update for Nvidia and or the kernel wait a couple of days for the chaos to clear.


http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=227780
http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=204752

Welcome to Fedora.

That's true so install the akmod mentioned in that thread. It automatically recreates the new kmod for the new kernel so you won't have that problem.

[JohnVV]

there are TWO ways to install the nvidia driver
1)
install the rpmfusion repo and run " yum install kmod-nvidia "
this is the PREFERRED way

2)
use the nvidia.run driver
a)
install The devel tools
--- including the current kernel source and headder rpm's
--- including gcc
the easiest way is to do this

yum groupinstall " Development Tools" "Development Libraries"
yum install kernel-devel kernel-headers

download THE CORRECT nvidia.run for your card
copy it to /
as root in the terminal

cd /
chmod +x *.run
telinit 3

relogin as root in the NOW text only mode
IN TEXT ONLY MODE
cd to /

cd /
sh *.run

and fallow the on screen directions
then reboot
THEN REINSTALL Mesa GL -- This is A MUST

yum install mesa-libGL-devel mesa-libGL mesa-libGLU-devel mesa-libGLU mesa-libGLw mesa-libGLw-devel
-- then for reinstalling mesa run this ---
yum reinstall mesa*

------------- VERY IMPORTANT ---------------
For all and every kernel,xorg , and X11 update YOU MUST reinstall the .run driver AND MESA

[Milena]

Originally Posted by JohnVV

THEN REINSTALL Mesa GL -- This is A MUST

Why is this necessary ? I always install latest drivers from nvidia.com, the .run file. I never did anything like reinstalling mesa and have no problems at all, everything 3d related works just fine here. Is there something i'm missing now without having mesa reinstalled ?

[JohnVV]

the OpenGL in the nvidia.run driver IS DIFFERENT than the one in fedora ,RHEL , CentOS,...
Thus the .run driver REPLACES fedora's /usr/lib/libGL.so with a link to nvidia's libGL.so.xx.xx.xx
and replaces fedora's
/usr/include/GL/glext.h
/usr/include/GL/gl.h
/usr/include/GL/glxext.h
/usr/include/GL/glx.h
with the matching ones from nvidia

they are NOT THE SAME as the ones in the fedora rpm's
and code built on one can ,and WILL, crash if using the other .

[Milena]

thank you for the information, i didn't know that. like mentioned above i never had any crash with nvidia drivers. i will reinstall mesa this time since there is a kernel update today and i have to reinstall the driver anyway. isn't their implementation of libgl supposed to be better (performance wise)?

edit: just got the information from nvidia forums using the "--no-opengl-headers" option when installing the .run driver will make it unnecessary to reinstall mesa.

[Hlingler]

Most end-users will never see any ill effects from the issue that JohnVV raises - but anyone who compiles software that requires Mesa will find serious problems unless they do as shown.

V

[JohnVV]

but anyone who compiles software that requires Mesa will find serious problems unless they do as shown.

And that is what i do ALL the time
the -no-headers option will cause a issue , in that, the code i build using the mesa *.h will be linked to the wrong *.so and cause a "seg fault"
i have found it much safer to just reinstall mesa. It is only one line of text to do that and takes only 30 sec. to reinstall

but 90%+ of " light " ( do not build code) will not have a problem .

[marko]

the Nvidia --uninstall command on my machine didn't remove the Nvidia .conf file from /etc/ld.so.conf.d.

This caused a problem where KDE would fail to load until I noticed the conf file and moved it away and re-ran ldconfig

So if you change from the Nvidia closed driver to the rpmfusion one and you have GL problems even though you ran --uninstall, make sure you don't see incorrect libraries when you run ldconfig -p
(anything like /usr/lib/nvidia/<filename> or /usr/lib64/nvidia/<filename> )