You may end up with a black screen instead of a lovely, usable desktop session. Indeed, if everything went well, you should have your Nvidia driver up and running. Nouveau driver and load the Nvidia driver, but that's too much hassle for most people, so reboot is a much In theory, you can just stop the graphical interface, unload the You might not have the comfort of automatic driver updates.Īfter the driver is installed, you can reboot. You can also try kmod-nvidia, for that matter, only The first package, akmod-nvidia, will automatically recompile your kernel moduleįor new kernels on every boot, if necessary, which means you will not have to manually reinstall drivers every Yum install akmod-nvidia xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-libs If you do not feel comfortable using this tool, you can then install the drivers on your own using the yum It will automatically configure the extra repositories, like RPMforge, renamed RepoForge, and then allow you to install the Nvidia graphics drivers. I have highlighted how you can configure repositories inĪ RedHat-family friendly repo guide, originally written for Scientific, but still quite useful here.Īlternatively, you can use a tool like easyLife, which will do the

You will need to configure additional repositories before you can search and install the desired drivers,īecause Fedora only ships with FOSS stuff by default. But we will not try anything manually for now. To go before you can use your Nvidia driver. Now, on Nvidia-enabled systems, by default, you will have the open-source Nouveau driver running.

However, if you still feel somewhat insecure, check my general Linux You know that your machine has an Nvidia card, and this is why you want the appropriate drivers for your I will skip this step, because the whole reason you're here is because If you browse the Web carefully, you will notice many guides telling you how you can discover whether your

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