How to Install Nvidia Driver in Fedora12?

[Marcel Rieux]

On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 2:55 AM, Amiga5 <Amiga5 at live.com> wrote:
> in your grub.conf add
>
> In order to keep compatibility with nouveau

lsmod | grep nouveau

outputs nothing. So, I suppose I don't have compatibility with Nouveau.

My question here is what's the purpose of keeping compatibility with
Nouveau. To switch back and forth from Nvidia to Nouveau?

> , you either need to recreate the
> initrd manually after the driver has been installed, or add a command line
> option to the kernel. To recreate the initrd:
>
> su -
> mv /boot/initramfs-$(uname -r).img /boot/initramfs-$(uname -r)-nouveau.img
> dracut /boot/initramfs-$(uname -r).img $(uname -r)

I have:

$ locate initramfs
/boot/initramfs-2.6.31.12-174.2.22.fc12.x86_64.img
/boot/initramfs-2.6.32.9-67.fc12.x86_64.img
/boot/initramfs-2.6.32.9-70.fc12.x86_64.img

$ locate /boot/initrd
/boot/initrd-2.6.29.5-191.fc11.x86_64-nouveau.img

> To use the default initrd, but disable the nouveau driver, edit
> /etc/grub.conf and add the following to the end of the line(s) starting with
> 'kernel':
>
>   rdblacklist=nouveau

I don't have this in grub.conf

So, from what I gather, my configuration shouldn't prevent the Nvidia
driver from working in any way, correct?

Thanks for your help!