Fedora 22 and Nvidia proprietary drivers

Jun 12, 2015 ·1 min read

This blog post will talk about how to set up Nvidia proprietary drivers on your Fedora 22 Workstation, or at least how I did it ;-)

Detect your Nvidia card model:
```
lspci |grep -i VGA
```
Switch to root (or execute rest of the commands with sudo priviledges:
```
su
```
Update your system and reboot after that:
```
dnf update -y
reboot
```

Enable RPM Fusion repositories:

dnf install -y https://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/rpmfusion-free-release-22.noarch.rpm https://download1.rpmfusion.org/nonfree/fedora/rpmfusion-nonfree-release-22.noarch.rpm

Install Nvidia drivers (8 + series of cards are supported):

dnf install -y akmod-nvidia xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-libs kernel-devel acpid

Backup old initramfs image:

mv /boot/initramfs-$(uname -r).img /boot/initramfs-$(uname -r)-old.img

And generate new one:

dracut /boot/initramfs-$(uname -r).img $(uname -r)

Reboot and enjoy ;-)
```
reboot
```