Nvidia guide for Rawhide.

[leigh123linux]

Rawhide Howto for the rpmfusion nvidia drivers


This is a Three-Step Process. If you don't follow all three steps, your install will fail!



1. Install the nvidia driver.

For GeForce 6, 7, 8, 9 & 200 series cards

su
rpm -Uvh http://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/rpmfusion-free-release-rawhide.noarch.rpm http://download1.rpmfusion.org/nonfree/fedora/rpmfusion-nonfree-release-rawhide.noarch.rpm
yum install akmod-nvidia  xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-libs.i686

2. Edit grub.conf ( if you omit this step the driver will fail to work )


this command adds rdblacklist=nouveau option to /boot/grub/grub.conf

su -
sed -i '/root=/s|$| rdblacklist=nouveau|' /boot/grub/grub.conf
mv /boot/initramfs-$(uname -r).img /boot/initramfs-$(uname    -r)-nouveau.img
dracut /boot/initramfs-$(uname -r).img $(uname -r)

3. Reboot

[chepioq]

Hi Leigh...
Thank for this tuto, that work with my rawhide kernel 2.6.33-0.24.rc5.git1.fc13.x86_64 and Nvidia card GeForce 8700M GT/PCI/SSE2

[Sagitter]

Only for 64 bit arch?

[leigh123linux]

Only for 64 bit arch?

No it should work for 32 bit as well.

[Sagitter]

Very good !!!

nvidia driver beta are installed, thank you Leigh123Linux.

[leigh123linux]

Guide updated to 195.36.03

Kernel patch no longer needed.

[chepioq]

Before update to 195.36.03, I remove the 195.30-2 one?

[leigh123linux]

Before update to 195.36.03, I remove the 195.30-2 one?

No need, just run yum update

i.e

yum --nogpgcheck update /path/to/rpms

[chepioq]

Hi Leigh
Thank that work...
I have just a question:
I am on x64, but for wine I need xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-libs-195.36.03-1.i686
And I don't remember how install (or built...) on my x64...

---------- Post added at 07:56 AM CST ---------- Previous post was at 07:17 AM CST ----------

I found the solution;

rpmbuild -ba xorg-x11-drv-nvidia.spec --define "kernels $(uname -r)" --target i686

[leigh123linux]

Hi Leigh
Thank that work...
I have just a question:
I am on x64, but for wine I need xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-libs-195.36.03-1.i686
And I don't remember how install (or built...) on my x64...

---------- Post added at 07:56 AM CST ---------- Previous post was at 07:17 AM CST ----------

I found the solution;

rpmbuild -ba xorg-x11-drv-nvidia.spec --define "kernels $(uname -r)" --target i686

You could use

rpmbuild -ba xorg-x11-drv-nvidia.spec --target i686

[chepioq]

Thank Leigh.

[ZenmasteR]

can i use this for the 173x drivers?

[Demz]

can i use this for the 173x drivers?

depends on the videocard you have

[leigh123linux]

can i use this for the 173x drivers?

No, I don't deal with 173xx drivers.

[Demz]

your better off to compile those drivers manually