Install Nvidia Driver (non Gefore series) in Fedora 14

Intro: 

While here places a complete guide that is already great for novices in Fedora community at http://www.if-not-true-then-false.com/2010/fedora-14-nvidia-drivers-install-guide-disable-nouveau-driver/, following text will act as a complementary instruction for those who are using Nvidia Driver Card other than in the Geforce / Geforce FX series,  Quadro FX, for instance. (some parts actually are learned from the this page)

Steps: 

1. update to the latest kernel and restart the OS

by

yum update kernel*
reboot

2. make sure a correct xorg configuration, i.e. /etc/X11/xorg.conf, contains things about nvidia like the following

Section "Files"

    ModulePath   "/usr/lib64/xorg/modules/extensions/nvidia"
    ModulePath   "/usr/lib64/xorg/modules"
EndSection

(If for 32bit platform, use lib instead of lib64 in the paths above)

(If the xorg.conf file does not exist before, simply create it and add the stuff above)

3. Change Configuration of the Grub Bootloader by changing the current /boot/grub/grub.conf into text 

like the following 

default=0
timeout=5
splashimage=(hd0,0)/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz 

hiddenmenu 

title Fedora (2.6.35.10-74.fc14.x86_64)
 root (hd0,0)
 kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.35.10-74.fc14.x86_64 ro root=UUID=e36dbe41-49ac-458f-8942-ba3fbdd22e32

 rd_NO_LUKS rd_NO_LVM rd_NO_MD rd_NO_DM LANG=en_US.UTF-8 SYSFONT=latarcyrheb-sun16 

KEYTABLE=us rhgb quiet rdblacklist=nouveau nouveau.modeset=0
 initrd /boot/initramfs-2.6.35.10-74.fc14.x86_64.img 

title Fedora Linux 14 (2.6.35.6-45.fc14.x86_64)
 root (hd0,0)
 kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.35.6-45.fc14.x86_64 ro root=UUID=e36dbe41-49ac-458f-8942-ba3fbdd22e32 

rd_NO_LUKS rd_NO_LVM rd_NO_MD rd_NO_DM LANG=en_US.UTF-8 SYSFONT=latarcyrheb-sun16

 KEYTABLE=us rhgb quiet
 initrd /boot/initramfs-2.6.35.6-45.fc14.x86_64.img 

title windows 7
 rootnoverify (hd0,3)
 chainloader +1

the key is the blued text, which is added to disable the default display driver : nouveau. If this is 

missed, you will be told in the step 4 below that the installer can not proceed due to the nouveau is not

disabled.

4. download driver from Nvidia official site, for linux x86_64 we are using 

http://us.download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86_64/260.19.29/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-260.19.29.run 

for now, wget it to a handy location, /root, say.

5. reboot,  then select the latest kernel item, and

 press "e" to edit it

 choose the "kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.35.10-7...." line and press "e" to edit again

 append "single" to the line and press enter to get back to the previous interface

 press "b" to trigger the bootstrap

6. now that get in the Level 1 (single user mode), enter Level 3 (I did not check if this is necessary)

by "/sbin/init 3"

7. Run the installer

 sh /root/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-260.19.29.run -a

(if you are installing for the first time, you might already nvidia-installer on you machine,

then you don't need to download beforehand, instead a simpler way is :

nvidia-install -a --update  

you can by this get the latest driver and install it. but this will demand a network access

of course, see this page (http://surfingtroves.blogspot.com/2010/12/linux-access-network

-service-in-single.html ) for enabling network access in the single user mode, as is suitable

for being at Level 3. 

8. when finished, restart, and the installation should be well done.