Gember Design

I just upgraded to Fedora 12. When I tried to install the proprietary Nvidia driver (version 190.53 for AMD64), the installation failed. Some research turned up a partial solution to the issue: Fedora 12 Nvidia Driver Installation. However, things still were not working as expected. Linux reported that it could not find the nvidia.ko kernel module for my kernel. After further research, I determined it was necessary to pass the current kernel version to the Nvidia installer. Below are the steps I followed to install the proprietary Nvidia drivers in Fedora 12:

1. Add the RPM Fusion repositories

   rpm -Uvh http://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/rpmfusion-free-release-stable.noarch.rpm
   http://download1.rpmfusion.org/nonfree/fedora/rpmfusion-nonfree-release-stable.noarch.rpm

2. Install the Nvidia driver from the RPM Fusion repositories

   yum install kmod-nvidia

3. Append to the kernel line in /etc/grub.conf

   nouveau.modeset=0 vga=0×318

4. Reboot
5. Download the proprietary Nvidia driver from http://www.nvidia.com/object/unix.html
6. Install the propriety Nvidia driver, including the kernel version with the -k option

   ./NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-190.53-pkg2.run -k $(uname -r)

7. Follow through the steps of the proprietary driver installation
8. Reboot
9. Configure your graphics as necessary using nvidia-settings

Linux fedora 12, nvidia