Installing akmod NVIDIA driver from rpmfusion on Fedora 12.
First make sure your nvidia card is in “Supported NVIDIA GPU Products List”: Click here for the list
1. Add rpmfusion repository:
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Enable RPM Fusion repositories
2. Install akmod nvidia driver
akmod builds the required kmod on bootup
# yum install akmod-nvidia xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-libs.i686
3. Add nouveau to blacklist in grub.conf
Add rdblacklist=nouveau option to /boot/grub/grub.conf
# sed -i '/root=/s|$| rdblacklist=nouveau|' /boot/grub/grub.conf
# mv /boot/initramfs-$(uname -r).img /boot/initramfs-$(uname -r)-nouveau.img
# dracut /boot/initramfs-$(uname -r).img $(uname -r)
4. Enable allow_execstack in SELinux
Make sure SElinux doesn’t prevent the driver from being loaded.
# setsebool -P allow_execstack on
5. Reboot
# reboot