Installing Nvidia drivers on Fedora 12?

Asked by Beastlicker (145

) January 1st, 2010

I currently have two video cards on my computer. An ATI RAEDON that came packed into my motherboard, and an Nvidia GeForce 9800 GT that I purchased as an upgrade. The live disc would not boot with the Nvidia, so I took it out and am currently installing using the ATI card to use it. When I plug my Nvidia in again upon reboot, will I be able to install the driver flawlessly? I have had some problems in the past with Ubuntu based systems, and I would like to know if Fedora is the same way.

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I strongly suspect it will have the same problems.

I would suggest going in to your BIOS and turning the integrated GPU off, then attaching your VGA/DVI cable to the nVidia card and booting up – that should prevent xorg from getting confused.

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since nvidia 9800gt is much more powerfull than on-board ati why don’t you disable the on-board graphics through bios and get away with no problems? if you install fedora with the ati when it boots the xserver will crash cause the kernel will try to load the ati drivers since this one saw when installing at the “configuring hardware” stage

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