HOW TO INSTALL NVIDIA DRIVER IN FEDORA 17

Looking for NVIDIA driver for Fedora 17 OS?

Here is what can you do to install the correct driver for your Fedora system.

First Step

Before you begin the installation process, it is essential  to check your machine whether have the nVidia Card supported.

lspci |grep -i VGA 

## Example output ## 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation GT315 [GeForce G210] (rev a1)

or

00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 2n Generation Core Processor Family Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 09) 

01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation GF107 [GeForce GT 650M SDDR3] (rev a1)

Second Step

Change to root user

su -

Third Step

Update to latest kernel (you can skip this step if your system is already in latest kernel)

yum update kernel* selinux-policy*
reboot

Fourth Step 

Install RPMFusion Repositories (32-bit/64-bit)

yum localinstall --nogpgcheck http://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/rpmfusion-free-release-stable.noarch.rpm http://download1.rpmfusion.org/nonfree/fedora/rpmfusion-nonfree-release-stable.noarch.rpm

Fifth Step

Install nvidia driver

yum install kmod-nvidia xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-libs

Sixth Step
Disable nouveau drivers from kernel.

## Backup old initramfs nouveau image ##
mv /boot/initramfs-$(uname -r).img /boot/initramfs-$(uname -r)-nouveau.img
 
## Create new initramfs image ##
dracut /boot/initramfs-$(uname -r).img $(uname -r) 

Last Step

If all done. Then

reboot

HOW TO INSTALL NVIDIA DRIVER IN UBUNTU

Nvidia Corporation regularly release a new update for their product's driver including supporting for popular open source operating system which is the Ubuntu.

The question that usually comes into a new Ubuntu user's mind is how they gonna install it in Ubuntu/Linux environment?

Today we will learn a basic Ubuntu command for installing nvidia graphic driver.

First : Open the Ubuntu Terminal (Ctrl + Alt + T)

Second : Enter following command in the terminal.

sudo apt-add-repository ppa:ubuntu-x-swat/x-updates
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install nvidia-current

After all the installing process done successfully, your can restart your system to make the driver runs properly.

Note : After you successfully restart your system, you can check your graphic card driver information using following command.

glxinfo | grep OpenGL

If you having an issue regarding to the Ubuntu system after installing those nvidia driver, please run following commands.

sudo apt-get install linux-headers-3.5.0-17-generic
sudo apt-get remove nvidia-current
sudo apt-get install nvidia-current

VIRTUAL SERVER (SERVER MAYA)

The Story

In computer arena, the term virtualization is refer to the process of creating a virtual version of something. The virtualization can be done on the Operating system, machine/hardware, storage devices and even the network resources.

On this page, we will focusing on the hardware virtualization which is currently very popular for the server environment.

Hardware Virtualization