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