Nvidia guide for F13 Development.

[leigh123linux]

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



1. Install the nvidia driver. ( if you have 4Gb of RAM or more you will probably have a PAE kernel [32bit only] so follow the PAE part )

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

su
rpm -Uvh  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 kmod-nvidia xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-libs.i686

If you use a PAE kernel

su
rpm -Uvh  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 kmod-nvidia-PAE

Or (akmod builds the required kmod on bootup )

su
rpm -Uvh  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 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

[leigh123linux]

[leigh@localhost ~]$ rpm -qa |grep -e nvidia -e Xorg |sort
kmod-nvidia-2.6.33-0.24.rc5.git1.fc13.x86_64-195.30-2.fc13.x86_64
nvidia-settings-1.0-3.2.fc13.x86_64
nvidia-xconfig-1.0-1.fc13.x86_64
xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-195.30-2.fc13.x86_64
xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-libs-195.30-2.fc13.i686
xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-libs-195.30-2.fc13.x86_64
xorg-x11-server-Xorg-1.7.99.3-1.20100120.fc13.x86_64
[leigh@localhost ~]$ uname -r
2.6.33-0.24.rc5.git1.fc13.x86_64
[leigh@localhost ~]$ glxinfo
name of display: :0.0
display: :0  screen: 0
direct rendering: Yes
server glx vendor string: NVIDIA Corporation
server glx version string: 1.4
server glx extensions:
    GLX_EXT_visual_info, GLX_EXT_visual_rating, GLX_SGIX_fbconfig, 
    GLX_SGIX_pbuffer, GLX_SGI_video_sync, GLX_SGI_swap_control, 
    GLX_EXT_swap_control, GLX_EXT_texture_from_pixmap, GLX_ARB_create_context, 
    GLX_ARB_create_context_profile, GLX_ARB_multisample, GLX_NV_float_buffer, 
    GLX_ARB_fbconfig_float
client glx vendor string: NVIDIA Corporation
client glx version string: 1.4
client glx extensions:
    GLX_ARB_get_proc_address, GLX_ARB_multisample, GLX_EXT_visual_info, 
    GLX_EXT_visual_rating, GLX_EXT_import_context, GLX_SGI_video_sync, 
    GLX_NV_swap_group, GLX_NV_video_out, GLX_SGIX_fbconfig, GLX_SGIX_pbuffer, 
    GLX_SGI_swap_control, GLX_EXT_swap_control, GLX_ARB_create_context, 
    GLX_ARB_create_context_profile, GLX_NV_float_buffer, 
    GLX_ARB_fbconfig_float, GLX_EXT_fbconfig_packed_float, 
    GLX_EXT_texture_from_pixmap, GLX_EXT_framebuffer_sRGB, 
    GLX_NV_present_video, GLX_NV_copy_image, GLX_NV_multisample_coverage, 
    GLX_NV_video_capture
GLX version: 1.4
GLX extensions:
    GLX_EXT_visual_info, GLX_EXT_visual_rating, GLX_SGIX_fbconfig, 
    GLX_SGIX_pbuffer, GLX_SGI_video_sync, GLX_SGI_swap_control, 
    GLX_EXT_swap_control, GLX_EXT_texture_from_pixmap, GLX_ARB_create_context, 
    GLX_ARB_create_context_profile, GLX_ARB_multisample, GLX_NV_float_buffer, 
    GLX_ARB_fbconfig_float, GLX_ARB_get_proc_address
OpenGL vendor string: NVIDIA Corporation
OpenGL renderer string: GeForce 7600 GT/PCI/SSE2
OpenGL version string: 2.1.2 NVIDIA 195.30
OpenGL shading language version string: 1.20 NVIDIA via Cg compiler

[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.

[leigh123linux]

Updated to 195.36.08

[chepioq]

Thank leigh, update to 195.36.08 work fine on my laptop.

[Sagitter]

Does this guide also work with kernel-2.6.33-1.fc13.i686 ?