Switch to nvidia proprietary graphics?

[Jimleko]

How do I use the proprietary graphics for my nvidia card?

I use KDE, and I've installed both kmod-nvidia and akmod-nvidia, and when I went to activate the special affects I ran into problems. I had to use Xrender for it to work at all (and that just went really slow) whereas OpenGL just made my screen go black, with a mouse and window borders if I alt+tabbed.

I reinstalled and only have the default video driver installed (nouveau or something like that) and I'm a bit scared to try prorprietary graphics without a step-by-step guide that works, which I haven't been able to find.

I don't think the drivers switched the first time. Can someone help me?

[GoinEasy9]

Did you try Leigh's guide?

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

[JohnVV]

if you use the nvidia.run driver you NEED to make sure it is the correct one for your card.
most of the new cards use the 185.18.36 driver the 32 bit or 64 bit depending on the OS.
-- 32 bit --
http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux_d...185.18.36.html
read the nvidia README file
http://us.download.nvidia.com/XFree8...DME/index.html
REQUIRED
you will need to install the kernel-devel and kernel-headers

yum install kernel-devel  kernel-headers

and have gcc installed
I do this by using "groupinstall"
su -
yum groupinstall "Development Tools" "Development Libraries"[/code]

I copy the .run driver ( NVIDIA-Linux-x86-185.18.36-pkg1.run is the current for new cards )
to /
then run

su -
cd /
chmod +x *.run
*.run

but you might need to use this command to run it
" sh ./*.run "
then fallow the onscreen instructions
then BEFOR rebooting reinstall the OpenGL mesa

yum install mesa-devel 
yum reinstall mesa*

then for EVERY kernel,X11 and xorg update you MUST reinstall the .run driver AND mesa ( yum reinstall mesa* )

[ozjd]

Originally Posted by Jimleko

How do I use the proprietary graphics for my nvidia card?

I use KDE, and I've installed both kmod-nvidia and akmod-nvidia, and when I went to activate the special affects I ran into problems. I had to use Xrender for it to work at all (and that just went really slow) whereas OpenGL just made my screen go black, with a mouse and window borders if I alt+tabbed.

I reinstalled and only have the default video driver installed (nouveau or something like that) and I'm a bit scared to try prorprietary graphics without a step-by-step guide that works, which I haven't been able to find.

I don't think the drivers switched the first time. Can someone help me?

You were on the right path, you didn't need to install both only the akmod is needed but it wouldn't have caused a problem. Check the guide mentioned in the second post as you may need additional steps such as blacklisting the nouveau driver. Many people have reported needing to do this I didn't but I did have to run xconfig-nvidia (I think that's the right command I'm not on my nvidia machine at the moment).