Archive for November 15th, 2011

Installing Nvidia drivers on Fedora 16 – the wrong way

This is how to install the official Nvidia drivers on Fedora 16. Its the “wrong way” because in Fedora you should install the Nvidia drivers using RPMs provided by rpmfusion.org, or “better” yet – use the open source nouveau driver that is provided with Fedora 16 and at this point does enough rudimentary 3D acceleration to run GNOME 3.

So why do that? because you can try the latest beta drivers from Nvidia’s web site (the stable drivers are usually already supported by rpmfusion) and sometimes the rpmfusion complex kernel module setup doesn’t work well – especially if you install custom kernels.

If you still want to do this the “right way”, head over to this article on “If !1 0” to get the simple instructions.

Warning: this procedure requires you to know the password for the “root” account and login using the text console.

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