How could install fedora 17 without nouveau driver?

[Andre Gompel]

Hello:
I could never install F17 on my system successfully.
The NOUVEAU driver crashes at login/boot time.

ON the same machine, Centos install just fine !
How could I install Fedora 17, WITHOUT the nouveau driver, meaning the same default driver as Centos/RH ?

Thanks.
Andre Gompel

[JamesNZ]

I believe CentOS uses the nouveau/mesa driver by default Possible solution is to install fedora, boot into runlevel 3, and install the proprietary Nvidia drivers via rpmfusion. There's an excellent guide here.

HTH

[nonamedotc]

If you use the dvd to install you can select what packages are to be installed. Just remove xorg-x11-drv-nouveau from the list of packages that need to be installed. You can then install nvidia drivers from rpmfusion as suggested above ..

[george_toolan]

What kind of GPU do you have?

[secipolla]

I installed from the minimal iso (netinstall). It boots to the console, has no X. Then I added the rpmfusion repo and when I installed X I chose the nvidia driver directly, instead of nouveau.

[Andre Gompel]

Thanks to all for the answers.

NetInstall seems to be the way to go: I will do that, because I am fortunate to have a ethernet connection.
With a Wi-Fi connection this will not really work, because WiFI somewhat requires GUI to work.
I realize this is not 100% true, but my previous attempts to connect to wi-fi without GUI were unsuccessful.

This underline the need the install to provide the option to install the Nouveau driver or NOT.

For now when it is detected it is installed by default... and crashes on HP Pavillon Nvidia 7150M equipped !

The Wifi (Brodcom) and Nvidia (also ATI !) drivers is where the Linux is often challenging to install.
I hope that the open source drivers mature to the point they always work, but Nvidia refusal to provide basic info to this end, does not bode so well.

I guess they need to lose significant business before they understand the need to change their attitude towards open source platforms. Actually this may be happening.

I will post later the results. No time today, alas.
Andre

[Andre Gompel]

OK, I found it ... and it is very simple !

1) Login using for example a live CD/DVD or Linux from another partition, etc...

2) Access and edit file ==> /boot/grub2/grub.cfg

3) Find the Stanza booting Fedora, and just add xdriver=vesa as noted below (in red).

4) Then you can boot normally in Vesa mode, which will allow you to install the Nvidia Driver
Search the net for something like "Fedora 17 Postinstall"

Andre

=============== THE GRUG.CFG Stanza for Ferora =============
echo 'Loading Fedora (3.4.5-2.fc17.x86_64)'
linux /vmlinuz-3.4.5-2.fc17.x86_64 root=UUID=4e101b4a-b264-4ea6-a8e6-cf148b50a3a5 ro rd.md=0 rd.lvm=0 rd.dm=0 SYSFONT=True KEYTABLE=us rd.luks=0 LANG=en_US.UTF-8 rhgb quiet xdriver=vesa nouveau.modeset=0 rd.driver.blacklist=nouveau
echo 'Loading initial ramdisk ... xdriver=vesa'
initrd /initramfs-3.4.5-2.fc17.x86_64.img