Comments on: Installing NVIDIA graphics drivers on Fedora 12/13

By: Keith

Keith — Tue, 11 May 2010 13:17:54 +0000

THANK YOU FOR POSTING THIS!!!!!!!! I have been making slow progress getting these two GeForce 9500GT’s working with Fedora 12.

By: BG

BG — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 19:39:45 +0000

Thanks for this posting — what a pain it was to get the nVidia proprietary legacy drivers installed (old Vanta card), but your post saved me

By: random guy

random guy — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 02:49:56 +0000

- after booting as described in your post:
# find /lib/modules/$(uname -r) -iname nouveau.ko -exec mv "{}" "{}.disabled" \;

this will disable the module for the current running kernel; after rebooting, there won’t be any more nouveau.

of course, every time you upgrade your kernel you will need to do this again.

By: David Dernoncourt

David Dernoncourt — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 14:15:25 +0000

Thanks for the precision, I updated the post. It’s funny how for once Ubuntu uses brand new (and even still beta…) software while even Fedora sticks to the latest stable…

By: Jay

Jay — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 13:59:36 +0000

Regards GRUB version, Fedora 12 (and also the recently-released openSUSE 11.2) both use legacy GRUB (i.e. version 0.97). Of recent releases, only Ubuntu 9.10 ( and maybe Mint 8 ?) use the new GRUB2.
However GRUB2 at the moment is considered beta-software: see at http://www.dedoimedo.com/computers/grub-2.html