Re: Correct instructions for installing NVidia proprietary driver on Fedora 13?

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> Hello Everyone
> I'm going to try all of this again.  This time, I'm going to give a precise, 
> blow by blow account of what I am doing:
> 1. "yum update": No Packages marked for Update
> 2. [steve@localhost ~]$ /sbin/lspci | grep VGA
> 03:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation G94 [GeForce 9600 GT] 
(rev 
> a1)
> 3. Go to this address: http://www.nvidia.com/object/IO_18897.html
> I found this on that page: "GeForce 9600 GT  0x0622"
> 4. I SKIP this step "su -c 'setsebool -P allow_execstack on'" because I have 
> SELinux disabled.
> 5. su -c 'yum install kmod-nvidia'
> Results:
> Package 1:kmod-nvidia-195.36.24-1.fc13.6.x86_64 already installed and latest 
> version
> Nothing to do
> 6. su -c 'mv /boot/initramfs-$(uname -r).img /boot/initramfs-$(uname -r)-
> nouveau.img'
> 7. su -c 'dracut /boot/initramfs-$(uname -r).img $(uname -r)'
> 8. "rdblacklist=nouveau nomodeset" at the end of the appropriate kernel line 
in 
> "grub.conf"
> 
> These 8 steps are the same ones that I follow every time I try this.  If this 
> does not work, I am going to try 'blacklist "nouveau"' in 
> /etc/modprobe/blacklist instead of "rdblacklist=nouveau" in grub.conf.
> 
> OK.  Here we go...

Hello Again,
I decided to re-compile the kernel because of the last two comments on this 
page:
http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-701291.html

> Tails9
> February 20th, 2008, 03:59 PM
> After reading alot, I guess I have to compile the kernel without the nvidiafb
> module, because I'd like to use the official nvidia drivers so I can run
> compiz (again), but this time without XGL (so I have direct rendering (so
> the videotearing will be gone) ). Tails9
> March 2nd, 2008, 02:13 PM
> I recompiled the kernel without the framebuffer support, reinstalled the
> nvidiadrivers with envy and the problem is gone.

1. "rpm -ivh kernel-2.6.33.4-95.fc13.src.rpm"
2. cd ~/rpmbuild/SPECS/
3. rpmbuild -bp kernel.spec
4. "cd ~/rpmbuild/BUILD/kernel-2.6.33/linux-2.6.33.x86_64/"
vi Makefile"
EXTRAVERSION="-noframebuffer"
3. "make menuconfig"
4. "Device Drivers ---> Graphics support ---> Support for frame buffer devices"
5. Uncheck "nVidia Framebuffer Support" & "nVidia Riva support"
6. "exit" back to the main menu.
7. Select "exit" again, and choose to save my new configuration file
8. "make rpm"

It's building now.  We'll see what happens.

Steven P. Ulrick

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