[SOLVED] How to install Nvidia driver for Fedora 17 64bit?

[Ariya]

How to install Nvidia driver for Fedora 17 64 bit version?
I had not been with Fedora for a long time, so don't know how to do this.

Thank you!

Originally Posted by Ariya

How to install Nvidia driver for Fedora 17 64 bit version?
I had not been with Fedora for a long time, so don't know how to do this.

Thank you!

So where's your guide?

[Ariya]

I am the one, who is asking how to install the Nvidia driver for the Fedora 17 64 bit.

I understand that this is not the write place, so I'd try to delete this post and go somewhere else in the forum.

[Ariya]

How to install Nvidia driver for Fedora 17 64 bit version?
I had not been with Fedora for a long time, so don't know how to do this.

Thanks!

Nothing has changed since F16

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

[Dan]

Threads merged. Please don't do that again.

[Ariya]

Sorry, I didn't see that before. Long time away from the forums.

http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=204752 is for 64 bit too? I see yum install akmod-nvidia xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-libs.i686

Is it the same for the 64 bit one too?

Or can I go through the Add/Remove software and then remove Noveau driver?

Originally Posted by Ariya

Sorry, I didn't see that before. Long time away from the forums.

http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=204752 is for 64 bit too? I see yum install akmod-nvidia xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-libs.i686

Is it the same for the 64 bit one too?

Or can I go through the Add/Remove software and then remove Noveau driver?

If you want to run 32bit apps on fedora 64bit you will require the 32bit nvidia libs.

[Ariya]

Thank you, Yellowman!

[Fred Zyphal]

Originally Posted by Yellowman

Nothing has changed since F16

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

Leighs' instructions have worked perfectly, with every release back to about 10, but I'm getting a black screen after reboot with 17 ... trying to figure out why.

Solved, well, at least working: I read another post about this issue, where it was blamed on the contents of the xorg.conf file. That user claimed that the "ServerLayout" seciton of xorg.conf was missing the Identifier "Layout0" line. I checked mine, and sure enough it was missing, so I tried putting it in manually, but no luck. So, being the lazy type, I just took a copy of xorg.conf from my working F16 system, copied it to the failing F17 system, and all is well ... I'm writing this post from my new F17 system.

Sorry I can't tell you exactly what is missing from xorg.conf after following Leighs' installation instructions ... but this worked for me.

[Riotvan]

Originally Posted by Fred Zyphal

Leighs' instructions have worked perfectly, with every release back to about 10, but I'm getting a black screen after reboot with 17 ... trying to figure out why.

Solved, well, at least working: I read another post about this issue, where it was blamed on the contents of the xorg.conf file. That user claimed that the "ServerLayout" seciton of xorg.conf was missing the Identifier "Layout0" line. I checked mine, and sure enough it was missing, so I tried putting it in manually, but no luck. So, being the lazy type, I just took a copy of xorg.conf from my working F16 system, copied it to the failing F17 system, and all is well ... I'm writing this post from my new F17 system.

Sorry I can't tell you exactly what is missing from xorg.conf after following Leighs' installation instructions ... but this worked for me.

I'm having the same problem, could you please post the working xorg.conf?

Originally Posted by Riotvan

I'm having the same problem, could you please post the working xorg.conf?

The default works fine here

[root@main-pc leigh]# cat /etc/X11/xorg.conf
# RPM Fusion - nvidia-xorg.conf
# 
Section "Device"
	Identifier  "Videocard0"
	Driver      "nvidia"
EndSection

Try

su
cp /etc/X11/nvidia-xorg.conf  /etc/X11/xorg.conf

[Riotvan]

Originally Posted by Yellowman

The default works fine here

[root@main-pc leigh]# cat /etc/X11/xorg.conf
# RPM Fusion - nvidia-xorg.conf
# 
Section "Device"
	Identifier  "Videocard0"
	Driver      "nvidia"
EndSection

Try

su
cp /etc/X11/nvidia-xorg.conf  /etc/X11/xorg.conf

I tried that it won't work the system basically freezes right when GDM is loaded, one time i've gotten past it but then nvidia-settings says my driver isn't loaded. I have tried it with a GT520 and 9500GT under fedora 17 and archlinux and the same thing happens. Only way to start the system is boot into init 3 otherwise i can't even ssh into the system, i'm guessing it freezes before it brings up the network.

Originally Posted by Riotvan

I tried that it won't work the system basically freezes right when GDM is loaded, one time i've gotten past it but then nvidia-settings says my driver isn't loaded. I have tried it with a GT520 and 9500GT under fedora 17 and archlinux and the same thing happens. Only way to start the system is boot into init 3 otherwise i can't even ssh into the system, i'm guessing it freezes before it brings up the network.

Post the output as an attachment

su
nvidia-bug-report.sh

[Riotvan]

Ok done, seems to be allot of errors related to DMAR maybe i can try disabling intel_iommu=on but i actually need that for this system. Thanks for your help so far
Edit: yup it was intel_iommu=on which causes problems but that kinda sucks since this machine is also a KVM host.