NVIDIA Proprietary Drivers Installation Guide for Fedora 14?

[skyxn3t]

Greetings to everyone,

Does anyone know where to find a good guide for installing NVIDIA Proprietary drivers for Fedora 14? I've been searching the forums and the net for a good guide for Fedora 14 but didn't have much luck.

Note: In [ leigh123linux ] Nvidia thread it says that Fedora 14 has a bug and to fix it we need to edit the xorg.conf file and add some lines to it, does that also apply to NVIDIA propritary drivers or only to nouveau ?

---------- Post added at 01:23 PM GMT ---------- Previous post was at 12:10 PM GMT ----------

I'm confused, what exactly is a proprietary driver?

How do you install it?
Is it using [ yum install kmod-nvidia ]
or
Downloading the driver from the NVIDIA website: NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-260.19.12.run
and following some process to install it?

I thought yum install kmod-nvidia was for Nouveau?
Is [ leigh123linux ] driver installation thread for nvidia proprietary or for Nouveau?

[ozjd]

Leigh's guide is for the proprietary drivers. They are packaged by RPMFusion for Fedora. the drivers from the nvidia site overwrite standard Fedora files. It is the best guide to follow.

The bug refers to a set up script / program that is part of the rpmfusion package. If the xorg.conf exists or is created manually there is no problem.

[skyxn3t]

Originally Posted by ozjd

Leigh's guide is for the proprietary drivers. They are packaged by RPMFusion for Fedora. the drivers from the nvidia site overwrite standard Fedora files. It is the best guide to follow.

The bug refers to a set up script / program that is part of the rpmfusion package. If the xorg.conf exists or is created manually there is no problem.

Ok thanks for the help. That clears up the confusion I had. : )
One more question though, are the prop drivers packaged by RPMFusion the same version as the driver from the NVidia website (260.19.12) or an older one?

[wojox]

Originally Posted by ozjd

Leigh's guide is for the proprietary drivers. They are packaged by RPMFusion for Fedora. the drivers from the nvidia site overwrite standard Fedora files. It is the best guide to follow.

The bug refers to a set up script / program that is part of the rpmfusion package. If the xorg.conf exists or is created manually there is no problem.

+1 I installed nvidia on F14 today with Leigh's guide.

[ozjd]

The current one is 260.19.12
It oftens takes a little while after nvidia releases updates for them to appear. It also often takes a while for the matching kmod to be released after a kernel update. For that reason I always use the akmod method as Leigh covers as an option. It will create the kmod if it doesn't exist for the kernel you are booting.

[egrar]

Hello, "proprietary" means it came from the manufacturer itself, which is nvidia, if you go to their web site, try to look for your specific driver and your linux distribution... installing this to your fedora box breaks system setup... if there is a kernel update then you must compile or reinstall the "proprietary" nvidia driver again. My Fedora 14x64bit is currently running the latest "Proprietary" NVIDIA driver.
I don't know how to make a script (still learning) but this is how installed mine..

1. Download nvidia linux driver
http://us.download.nvidia.com/XFree8...-260.19.12.run
2. edit /etc/inittab #change runlevel to 3 and save
3. edit /boot/grub/grub.conf #add/edit "rdblacklist=nouveau" to the end of the kernel line, this will stop the system from loading nouveau driver. save and reboot.
4. System restarts, log in as root, go to your download folder where you downloaded Nvidia driver and install GCC, kernel-devel*, yum -y install gcc kernel-devel*
5. Run nvidia installer as 'sh ./NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-260.19.12.run
if evrything goes ok, edit /etc/inittab runlevel to 5 (X11) , save and reboot..

Remember doing this is NOT advisable , it will break your fedora installation.. i have not tried to reverse this process,you may need to reinstall your fedora in order to use a stable nvidia driver from fedora/rpmfusion..

I have done this in my F13x64bit and F14x64bit, no problems encountered yet.. I guess i'll be doing this till they have a fix on current bugs...

im still learning linux...

---------- Post added at 07:36 PM GMT ---------- Previous post was at 07:36 PM GMT ----------

Hello, "proprietary" means it came from the manufacturer itself, which is nvidia, if you go to their web site, try to look for your specific driver and your linux distribution... installing this to your fedora box breaks system setup... if there is a kernel update then you must compile or reinstall the "proprietary" nvidia driver again. My Fedora 14x64bit is currently running the latest "Proprietary" NVIDIA driver.
I don't know how to make a script (still learning) but this is how installed mine..

1. Download nvidia linux driver
http://us.download.nvidia.com/XFree8...-260.19.12.run
2. edit /etc/inittab #change runlevel to 3 and save
3. edit /boot/grub/grub.conf #add/edit "rdblacklist=nouveau" to the end of the kernel line, this will stop the system from loading nouveau driver. save and reboot.
4. System restarts, log in as root, go to your download folder where you downloaded Nvidia driver and install GCC, kernel-devel*, yum -y install gcc kernel-devel*
5. Run nvidia installer as 'sh ./NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-260.19.12.run
if evrything goes ok, edit /etc/inittab runlevel to 5 (X11) , save and reboot..

Remember doing this is NOT advisable , it will break your fedora installation.. i have not tried to reverse this process,you may need to reinstall your fedora in order to use a stable nvidia driver from fedora/rpmfusion..

I have done this in my F13x64bit and F14x64bit, no problems encountered yet.. I guess i'll be doing this till they have a fix on current bugs...

im still learning linux...

[docmccoy]

Hi all,

I passed the tutorial. Nvidia works fine. I have a powerful laptop machine.
Each time I load the system I see the warning, which says:

...
Checking for module nvidia.ko: [ OK ]
Enabling the nvidia driver: Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/sbin/nvidia-config-display", line 28, in <module>
import livnaConfigDisplay.ConfigDisplay
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/livnaConfigDisplay/ConfigDisplay.py", line 29, in <module>
import xf86config
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/xf86config.py", line 1, in <module>
import ixf86config
ImportError: /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/ixf86configmodule.so: undefined symbol: xstrtokenize
[FAILED]
...

While other options looks [ OK ]. There is something wrong with nvidia. How can I fix it? I enabled desktop effects, they are working. Laptop starts smoothly, but that warning makes me feel suspicious.

Please advise.

Kostia

[ozjd]

It is a bug in livna-config-display. If you have an xorg.conf in place it will work and you can ignore it. See Leigh's nvidia thread for some discussion on it. He is working on getting rid of the message.

Update - Leigh has posted a fix on his nvidia thread - post 1296