How to Install Nvidia and not Nouveau at New Install

Mon Jan 25 12:05:55 UTC 2010

----- Original Message ----

> From: François Patte <francois.patte at mi.parisdescartes.fr>
> To: Community support for Fedora users <users at lists.fedoraproject.org>
> Sent: Mon, January 25, 2010 1:50:30 AM
> Subject: Re: How to Install Nvidia and not Nouveau at New Install
> 
> Le 25/01/2010 04:27, Jim a écrit :
> > FC12-X86_64/KDE
> > 
> > How do I prevent Nouveau driver from installing at New install , so I 
> > can install
> > Nvidia ?
> 
> Why do you want to do this? You can install nvidia driver afterwards

I can't speak (or write) for the OP, but on my system, both nv and nouveau just don't work. As for the OP's question, perhaps switching distros? I'm quite content to install the nvidia driver manually - it's a price I willingly pay for my choice of hardware and Fedora.