Fedora 17

Thank you for this. I have tried two or three times in the past to install the NVIDIA drivers using the right way but I have always ended up with a system that does not work.

I have just installed Fedora 17 and the latest kernel (kernel-3.4.3-1.fc17 64 bit) would not work for me. I found that disabling the nouveau driver would fix it.

So I tried again to install nvidia drivers and failed. So, I decide to try your worong way and it worked! (I was pleasantly surprised).

Biggest problem I encountered was making sure I had the correct source/development modules installed. Quite difficult to track down what was required.