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#Nvidia proprietary driver installation
You can use rpm packages from rpmfusion, or you can build the driver yourself.
##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
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:
yumdownloader --resolve xorg-x11-drv-nvidia
yumdownloader --source nvidia-kmod
###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:
yum install kernel-devel rpm-build kmodtool
rpmbuild --nodeps -D "kernels `uname -r`" --rebuild nvidia-kmod-260.19.36-1.fc13.3.src.rpm
In above command replace uname -r with kernel version from your Qubes dom0. If everything went right, you have now complete packages with nvidia drivers for Qubes system. Transfer them to dom0 (e.g. using a USB stick) and install (using standard "yum install /path/to/file").
Then you need to disable nouveau (normally it is done by install scripts from nvidia package, but unfortunately it isn't compatible with Qubes...):
Edit /etc/default/grub:
~~~
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="quiet rhgb nouveau.modeset=0 rd.driver.blacklist=nouveau video=vesa:off"
~~~
Regenerate grub configuration:
~~~
grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/grub2/grub.cfg
~~~
Reboot.
##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.
See this page for instructions on how to transfer files to Dom0 (where there is normally no networking).
WARNING: Nvidia doesn't sign their files. To make it worse, you are forced to download them over a plaintext connection. This means there are virtually dozens of possibilities for somebody to modify this file and provide you with a malicious/backdoored file. You should realize that installing untrusted files into your Dom0 is a bad idea. Perhaps it might be a better idea to just get a new laptop with integrated Intel GPU? You have been warned.
###Userspace components
Install libraries, Xorg driver, configuration utilities. This can by done by nvidia-installer:
./NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-260.19.44.run --ui=none --no-x-check --keep --no-nouveau-check --no-kernel-module
###Kernel module
You will need:
- nvidia kernel module sources (left from previous step)
- kernel-devel package installed
- gcc, make, etc
This installation must be done manually, because nvidia-installer refused to install it on Xen kernel. Firstly ensure that kernel-devel package installed all needed files. This should consists of:
- /usr/src/kernels/2.6.34.1-12.xenlinux.qubes.x86_64
- /lib/modules/2.6.34.1-12.xenlinux.qubes.x86_64/build symlinked to the above directory
- /usr/src/kernels/2.6.34.1-12.xenlinux.qubes.x86_64/arch/x64/include/mach-xen should be present (if not - take it from kernel sources)
If all the files are not there correct the errors manually. To build kernel module, enter NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-260.19.44/kernel directory and execute:
make
IGNORE_XEN_PRESENCE=1 CC="gcc -DNV_VMAP_4_PRESENT -DNV_SIGNAL_STRUCT_RLIM" make -f Makefile.kbuild
mv /lib/modules/2.6.34.1-12.xenlinux.qubes.x86_64/kernel/drivers/video/nvidia.ko /lib/modules/2.6.34.1-12.xenlinux.qubes.x86_64/extra/
Ignore any errors while inserting nvidia.ko (at the end of make phase).
###Disable nouveau:
cat /etc/modprobe.d/nouveau-disable.conf
# blacklist isn't enough...
install nouveau /bin/true
Add rdblacklist=nouveau option to /boot/grub/menu.lst (at the end of line containing vmlinuz).
###Configure Xorg
After all, you should configure Xorg to use nvidia driver. You can use nvidia-xconfig or do it manually:
X -configure
mv /root/xorg.conf.new /etc/X11/xorg.conf
# replace Driver in Device section by "nvidia"
Now you should reboot the system.