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

Originally Posted by 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.

Add yourself to this report so nvidia can fix it.

http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=181745

[Ariya]

Guys,

Please check this thread; http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=204752 and do exactly as instructed.

[Riotvan]

Originally Posted by Yellowman

Add yourself to this report so nvidia can fix it.

http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=181745

Yes i guess that's the only thing left to do. Maybe it will work if i install the 3.4 kernel..

[Fred Zyphal]

Originally Posted by Riotvan

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

Sure, but keep in mind it's for my hardware configuration: GeForce GTX 550 Ti, running two monitors in twinview mode. My new F17 is a fresh install on a new SSD, in the same exact machine, so based on Yellowmans' statement "nothing has changed since F16", I felt pretty confident that this would work for me. I'll just post it here, and you can use it to compare:

# nvidia-settings: X configuration file generated by nvidia-settings
# nvidia-settings: version 285.05.09 (mockbuild@hephaestus.wilsonet.com) Thu Oct 13 16:12:50 EDT 2011

Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "Layout0"
Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0
InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
Option "Xinerama" "0"
EndSection

Section "Files"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/default/Type1"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
# generated from default
Identifier "Mouse0"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "auto"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
Option "Emulate3Buttons" "no"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
# generated from data in "/etc/sysconfig/keyboard"
Identifier "Keyboard0"
Driver "keyboard"
Option "XkbLayout" "us"
Option "XkbModel" "pc105"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
# HorizSync source: edid, VertRefresh source: edid
Identifier "Monitor0"
VendorName "Unknown"
ModelName "SAMSUNG"
HorizSync 30.0 - 81.0
VertRefresh 60.0 - 75.0
Option "DPMS"
EndSection

Section "Device"
Identifier "Device0"
Driver "nvidia"
VendorName "NVIDIA Corporation"
BoardName "GeForce GTX 550 Ti"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "Device0"
Monitor "Monitor0"
DefaultDepth 24
Option "TwinView" "1"
Option "TwinViewXineramaInfoOrder" "CRT-0"
Option "metamodes" "CRT-0: nvidia-auto-select +0+0, CRT-1: nvidia-auto-select +1920+0"
SubSection "Display"
Depth 24
EndSubSection
EndSection

---------- Post added at 11:16 PM ---------- Previous post was at 11:10 PM ----------

Originally Posted by Ariya

Guys,

Please check this thread; http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=204752 and do exactly as instructed.

Ariya ... I think the "guys" in this thread have been there, and done that, many times in the past ... it just didn't work this time. My issue was the xorg.conf file, but it sounds like some of the others are slightly different.

[Dan]

Good grief! That'll be quite enough of that, guys. I've purged a few posts, and that's the end of it ... kapish?

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