Installing nvidia driver on Fedora 21 crashes my system

[Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX]

On 09/30/2014 03:38 AM, Napoleon Quashie wrote:
> I have been using Fedora 21 since the alpha release and overall it has 
> worked wonderfully (it has never one crashed and I use it every day), 
> even to the extent of noticing a reduction in the memory consumed and 
> processor usage when I have all my usual application up and running. 
> One thing though is, I find my screen is kind of jerky when I scroll 
> and this has never happened with other Fedora releases.
>
> I therefore tried to install nvidia. I have always followed the steps 
> from 
> http://www.if-not-true-then-false.com/2014/fedora-20-nvidia-guide/. It 
> basically boils down to:
>
> Install RPMFusion
> *yum install akmod-nvidia xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-libs kernel-devel acpid*
> yum install  kernel-PAE-devel
> mv  /boot/initramfs-$(uname  -r).img /boot/initramfs-$(uname  -r)-nouveau.img
> dracut /boot/initramfs-$(uname  -r).img $(uname  -r)
> *reboot*
> However, after reboot, I get the rather interesting message:
>
>     Oh no something has gone wrong
>
>     A problem has occured and the system can't recover.
>
>     Please logout and try again.
>
> I've never had any issues installing nvidia in the past on any Fedora 
> release. Hoping for some solutions on how to fix this. Thanks in the 
> meantime.
>
>
Installing the Nvidia driver has always been a bit tricky at best.
This is complicated by the recent tendency to boot the wrong kernel.

I run a 64 bit system so my current routine is:
     (install rpmfusion)
     yum install xorg-x11-dev-nvidia
      edit /boot/g*2/*cfg - replace "rhgb quiet" with "nomodeset"
     reboot, taking care to boot the correct entry.

So far this works for me.  If the kernel is updated, I usually have
to remove xorg-x11-drv-nvidia, reboot, and install xorg-x11-drv-nvidia
all over.

The Nvidia driver is so much nicer than Nouveau it's worth the fuss
to get it installed.

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