Quick guide to install nVidia Drivers on Fedora 23

If you are running Fedora 23 on top of nVidia powered laptop or desktop PC, you will need to install the driver for your nVidia graphic card. By default Fedora 23 uses Nouveau driver. nVidia driver will improve and unlock all of your nVidia graphic card performance and capabilities. The nVidia driver is not included on Fedora 23 installation because its proprietary driver.

There are some steps to install nVidia Drivers on Fedora 23.

1.0 Check if your nVidia card is supported.

Open Terminal and execute the following command:

lspci |grep -E "VGA|3D"

Example Output:

01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GF119 [GeForce GT 610] (rev a1)

You can cross check your graphic card with the official List of Supported nVidia GPU Product.

2.0 Download nVidia installer package

Go to this website: http://www.nvidia.com/Download/Find.aspx?lang=en-us and find the latest version of installer available. Save the installer to your Download directory. You will have a file called something like this: NVIDIA-Linux-xxxx.run.

3.0 Make the package executable

Before we can use the installer we’ve downloaded on the above step. We have to make it executable. Open Terminal and cd to the download directory and then use this command to make the file executable. For example:

cd /home/fitri/Downloads 
sudo chmod +x NVIDIA-Linux-352.63.run

4.0 Installation

• 4.1. Update system

It is recommended to have your system up to date and also we need to update the kernel to the latest version.

su 
dnf update

• 4.2 Install dependencies

dnf install kernel-devel kernel-headers gcc dkms acpi

• 4.3 Disable Nouveau

echo "blacklist nouveau" >> /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf

• 4.4 Edit /etc/sysconfig/grub

Append ‘rd.driver.blacklist=nouveau’ to end of ‘GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX=”…”‘

GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="rd.lvm.lv=fedora/swap rd.lvm.lv=fedora/root rhgb quiet rd.driver.blacklist=nouveau"

• 4.5 Update grub2 conf

## BIOS ##
grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/grub2/grub.cfg
 
## UEFI ##
grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/efi/EFI/fedora/grub.cfg

• 4.6 Remove xorg-x11-drv-nouveau

dnf remove xorg-x11-drv-nouveau

• 4.6 Generate Initramfs

## Backup old initramfs nouveau image ##
mv /boot/initramfs-$(uname -r).img /boot/initramfs-$(uname -r)-nouveau.img
 
## Create new initramfs image ##
dracut /boot/initramfs-$(uname -r).img $(uname -r)

• 4.7 Reboot to runlevel 3

systemctl set-default multi-user.target
 
reboot

Install nVidia proprietary drivers for GeForce 6/7 & GeForce 8/9/200/300 & GeForce 400/500/600/700/800/900 series cards

su
./NVIDIA-Linux-*.run

and then follow on screen installation tutorial. Once finished, reboot to runlevel 5

 
systemctl set-default graphical.target
 
reboot

Now your nVidia driver should be installed and working. Thanks for reading.