Fedora 9 and Nvidia xorg 1.5 compatible driver (nvidia 174.14.05 version)

Nvidia has just released its latest xorg-1.5 supported driver. All the Fedora 9 Owners who are eagerly waiting for the latest nvidia driver rejoice !.

Installation of this is pretty easy, just follow these steps.

1. Add Freshrpms to your repository

sudo rpm -Uvh http://ftp.freshrpms.net/pub/freshrpms/fedora/linux/9/freshrpms-release/freshrpms-release-1.1-1.fc.noarch.rpm

2. Install the nvidia driver

sudo yum install nvidia-x11-drv

3. Logout of X and go to runlevel 1 or 3

sudo init 1

4. Update your /etc/X11/xorg.conf to make use of new nvidia driver. (mine is follows)

[nareshv@fallenAngel ~]$ cat /etc/X11/xorg.conf

# nvidia-xconfig: X configuration file generated by nvidia-xconfig
# nvidia-xconfig:  version 1.0  (buildmeister@builder3)  Wed Jun 13 18:39:30 PDT 2007
# Xorg configuration created by system-config-display

Section "ServerLayout"
       Identifier     "single head configuration"
       Screen      0  "Screen0" 0 0
       InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
       InputDevice    "Synaptics" "CorePointer"
EndSection

Section "Files"
       ModulePath   "/usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions/nvidia"
       ModulePath   "/usr/lib/xorg/modules"
EndSection

Section "Module"
       Load  "glx"
       Load  "extmod"
   Load  "dbe"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
   Identifier  "Keyboard0"
   Driver      "kbd"
   Option        "XkbModel" "pc105"
   Option        "XkbLayout" "us"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
   Identifier  "Synaptics"
   Driver      "synaptics"
   Option        "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
   Option        "Protocol" "auto-dev"
   Option        "Emulate3Buttons" "yes"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
   Identifier   "Monitor0"
   VendorName   "HP"
   ModelName    "Unknown"
   ModeLine     "1280x800_60.00" 83.5 1280 1344 1480 1680 800 801 804 828 -hsync +vsync
   Option        "DPMS"
   #[nareshv@fallenangel ~]$ gtf 1280 800 60
          # 1280x800 @ 60.00 Hz (GTF) hsync: 49.68 kHz; pclk: 83.46 MHz
EndSection

Section "Device"
   Identifier  "Videocard0"
   Driver      "nvidia"
   VendorName  "NVIDIA Corporation"
   BoardName   "GeForce Go 7400"
   VideoRam    268435456
EndSection

Section "Screen"
   Identifier "Screen0"
   Device     "Videocard0"
   Monitor    "Monitor0"
   DefaultDepth     24
   Option        "AllowGLXWithComposite" "True"
   Option        "AddARGBGLXVisuals" "True"
   Option        "TripleBuffer" "True"
   Option        "UseDamageEvents" "True"
   Option        "UseRandR" "True"
   #Option        "RenderAccel" "True"
   Option        "NoPowerConnectorCheck" "False"
   Option        "RandRRotation" "True"
   Option        "DynamicTwinView" "False"
   Option        "OnDemandVBlankInterrupts" "True"
   Option        "ConnectToAcpid" "True"
   Option        "EnableACPIHotkeys" "True"
   Option        "UseEvents" "True"
   Option        "ExactModeTimingsDVI" "True"
   Option        "NvAGP" "0"
   SubSection "Display"
       Viewport   0 0
       Depth     24
       Modes    "1280x800" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
   EndSubSection
EndSection

Section "Extensions"
   Option        "Composite" "Enable"
EndSection

5. Now follow step-6, only if you have renamed the /usr/bin/Xorg as per my previous blog post

6. Remove the Shell Script

# mv /usr/bin/Xorg.0 /usr/bin/Xorg

7. Load the nvidia kernel module

# modprobe nvidia

8. Go to Run level 5 (GUI)

# init 5

Now you should have the system using the Latest nvidia driver as the default, with all the compiz,3d, everything working!

Here is my screenshot of running glxgears with 1600fps




Now you can start enjoying KDE4 with all the 3d effects !. Many thanks to nvidia for the much awaited compatibility with xorg-1.5