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#Nvidia proprietary driver installation
# Nvidia proprietary driver installation
You can use rpm packages from rpmfusion, or you can build the driver yourself.
##RpmFusion packages
## RpmFusion packages
There are rpm packages with all necessary software on rpmfusion. The only package you have to compile is the kernel module (but there is a ready built src.rpm package).
###Download packages
### Download packages
You will need any Fedora 18 system to download and build packages. You can use Qubes AppVM for it, but it isn't necessary. To download packages from rpmfusion - add this repository to your yum configuration (instructions are on their website). Then download packages using yumdownloader:
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yumdownloader --source nvidia-kmod
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###Build kernel package
### Build kernel package
You will need at least kernel-devel (matching your Qubes dom0 kernel), rpmbuild tool and kmodtool, and then you can use it to build package:
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##Manual installation
## Manual installation
This process is quite complicated: First - download the source from nvidia.com site. Here "NVIDIA-Linux-x86\_64-260.19.44.run" is used. Copy it to dom0. Every next step is done in dom0.
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###Userspace components
### Userspace components
Install libraries, Xorg driver, configuration utilities. This can by done by nvidia-installer:
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./NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-260.19.44.run --ui=none --no-x-check --keep --no-nouveau-check --no-kernel-module
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###Kernel module
### Kernel module
You will need:
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Ignore any errors while inserting nvidia.ko (at the end of make phase).
###Disable nouveau:
### Disable nouveau:
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cat /etc/modprobe.d/nouveau-disable.conf
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Add *rdblacklist=nouveau* option to /boot/grub/menu.lst (at the end of line containing *vmlinuz*).
###Configure Xorg
### Configure Xorg
After all, you should configure Xorg to use nvidia driver. You can use *nvidia-xconfig* or do it manually:
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Reboot to verify all this works.
#Troubleshooting lack of video output during installation
# Troubleshooting lack of video output during installation
Specifically, the notes below are aimed to help when the GRUB menu shows up fine, the installation environment starts loading, and then the display(s) go into standby mode. This is, typically, related to some sort of an issue with the kernel's KMS/video card modules.