Hi, I've seen many guides, and threads about how to install nvidia drivers for graphic cards, but a lot of them are outdated, or not relevant to my specific graphic card and Fedora 23 distro. I also noticed 'yum' changed to 'dnf' to run in terminal for commands. Can someone tell me the proper in detail instruction on how to install graphic card drivers for GeForce 210 graphic card? My driver I normally used before in other Linux Distros was updated from 340.93 to 340.96 since xorg was updated to 1.18.

1. Nvidia Geforce 210 Specs

Linux x64 (AMD64/EM64T) Display Driver Version: 340.96 Release Date: 2015.11.16 Operating System: Linux 64-bit Language: English (US) File Size: 66.59 MB I'll be running Fedora 23 64bit here. Also, was wondering why it's not easy to install drivers in first place, or why doesn't Fedora automatically gather hardware drivers needed and let you install them quickly, like Kubuntu Wily does? From what I can see also, Fedora don't even have a nice graphical interface to install programs and software, like OpenSuse and Kubuntu has, it's a shame lol. Anyway, thanks in advance.

Last edited by Smooey; 19th November 2015 at 01:20 AM. Fedora and its sponsoring corporation, Red Hat, do not ship non-free software for a variety of reasons, inluding legal. The primary source of third-party software that Fedora does not ship is rpmfusion.org, an independent site operated by volunteers.

As time permits, these new Nvidia drivers will likely become available there. RPMfusion also maintains an excellent howto page explaining how to install the drivers. Be sure you understand the difference between 'akmod' and 'kmod' driver packages. Be aware that you will probably see several kernel updates during the lifetime of a Fedora release. 'Software' is a GUI software installer at home on Gnome. You might also install 'yumex-dnf', which is similar to Synaptic in the Debian/Ubuntu/Mint universe. I believe Fedora KDE ships with Apper, while Muon is in the repos.

Last edited by joncr; 19th November 2015 at 02:00 AM. Thanks for reply, and guess can understand a little regarding not shipping stuff for legal reasons, just the users suffer though, because it's more work and complex for them to do it via command lines, and even doing it that way gives errors and issues.

Happened to me just trying to figure out why ARK doesn't open / unrar rar archives, and googled about it, which only gave me one fedora support thread as to what needed installed, and even after trying to install 'rar' package to work with ARK in terminal, got errors. If you're going to ship ARK prepackaged, at least make it already work for users to unrar rar archives, not make users search via google to find one thread about it and how to fix it, and provide good docs on how to do updated terminal commands for Fedora 23 (since it's latest version out there). Even the terminal commands from that one thread I found gave errors, and had to install or do something special in order to perform the installation of 'rar' package for ARK, was a mess, but eventually got it. But regarding kmod / akmod versions of drivers, I never really had to worry about which ones were installed, because I downloaded them from nvidia site itself for linux 64bit for my card and installed hard way method in opensuse, or just added 'nvidia driver repo' in repo manager, and zypper dup'd, done deal. In kubuntu wily, it automatically fetches the proper one for me in device driver manager, install it, done deal. With Fedora, it's google searching like crazy to find a guide that's relatively up-to-date, run terminal commands for rpmfusion, then most times those don't even work, so it's back to googling again, and some stuff doesn't even get installed anyway, because it's broken. Users left holding the can, with a borked installation for drivers.

Why would there be so many updates to kernels in fedora releases? Isn't Fedora 23 supposed to be stable, not always updating kernels, like OpenSuse Tumbleweed does? I tried installing some graphical interface via command line from, doesn't work, didn't show up either. Heck, trying to install latest flash player so videos in some sites play, and downloaded 64bit Linux YUM version of flash player (4.2KB in size) and installing with Apper don't work.

I like Fedora 23, seems more stable in general versus OpenSuse Leap and Kubuntu Wily out of box, but yet lacks in so many aspects for other things. Such a shame. Good Linux documentation is rare, though it's much better than it used to be. It's simply not possible, to sort of answer another question, to anticipate all the possible configurations a user may have, especially when something is developed by someone in their spare time. Fedora, although far more stable than it used to be, is still somewhat of a development platform for RedHat, and as such, is not as stable as say, the various Ubuntu LTS versions.

If you like the Fedora/RedHat way, there is CentOS, which has far fewer updates (and makes NVidia installation easy.) Mint, and to a lesser extant, some of the Ubuntus, make it somewhat easier to get the proprietary drivers. I haven't had to deal with Fedora and NVidia in a couple of years, though, judging from the forums, at times it can be a real pain-but basically, if one is a bit patient and waits for rpmfusion to catch up, it can be fairly easy.

I'm not familiar with ARK (or indeed, KDE, which I haven't used in a long time) and its ARK program not being able to handle rar files automatically may be a KDE rather than Fedora problem. Fedora gets closer, in my opinion, with each iteration, to making it easier for the user who prefers graphical tools and wants an easier experience. However, some things-such as frequent kernel upgrades and the difficulties with NVidia probably aren't going to change, and those who want those things to work out of the box may be better off with a different distribution. I don't know if there's a perfect distribution for those who want the smooth out of the box experience-it's still a Windows/Mac world (and I'm sure you can easily find a few programs that some consider essential that only work on Windows, and not even Mac).

Mint is known for frequently being one of the best for a smooth experience, but, for example, Mint's media players seem to have trouble with the newer x265 HEVC video encoding, but mplayer from rpmfusion plays them without a problem. Sorry, I realize none of this is really a solution, but maybe it helps you understand a little better. As for flash, for what it's worth, there's a repo that can be used, but I usually just download the rpm, then run sudo rpm -uvh on the downloaded file and it works. Thanks guys for your replies, will respond without quoting or I'll be having novels of quoted text to each thing from both of you lol.

Thanks for clarifying Fedora isn't an LTS distro, not sure where I got assumption it was 'stable' so to speak, guess just assumed it cause of version number changes, usually distros do the version numbering, then keep the distro number stable throughout time. I'll have to check out CentOS then as well, but will have to figure out for sure which distro I'll stick with then. I do like Fedora though, just sucks I'm not having best of luck with it so far, although I haven't learned it much either, like I have with OpenSuse and Kubuntu KDE distros. I had spent more time installing, wiping, installing, wiping, installing, wiping, installing, repeat several times for both OpenSuse 13.2, Tumblweed, Leap, and Kubuntu Wily KDE versions than I have with Fedora.

It's all a learning process of course too, regarding each different distro. Regarding rpmfusion, I had issues installing that even with command line in terminal, but eventually got it.

Will have to check out the docs on installing flash, nvidia drivers, etc more then and avoid using other sites in google, cause those guides are how I ended up with most issues. Regarding Mint, I've used Linux Mint 16 for longest time and had rarely any issues at all, of course I could have upgraded to Mint 17 at the time but didn't bother.

I wanted to try other distros out there. And of course I used Windows 7 for longest time as well, until they started sneaking in more and more Windows 10 styled spying updates into it, which turned me off from Windows 7 even. I know there's updates to avoid installing to avoid the Windows 10 spying type updates, but I like Linux in general versus Windows. At this point it's just matter of finding a good distro, dban the drive again, install the OS fresh, and drivers, and etc and be on my way. I'm OCD or anal about things, so I try to do things fresh, with less errors and issues with OS installation of things as I possibly can. I know it's not always possible to install things error free, but I'm just OCD / anal that way lol.:P Things should be easy for users in general, not complex, not littered with issues, problems, etc. Otherwise, what's point in releasing more versions, if there's just more issues and problems, and not making user's lives easier to install the distro in first place.

I know most release 100% bug free, but at least try and make things more stable over long term so there's fewer issues and problems. If people want 'always changing and always updating' versions of linux, those distros should be available separate to users to grab and use, not made 'main latest versions' for every Tom, Dick, and Harry to grab first off shelf. Like OpenSuse Tumbleweed is made as separate distro (not stable) and marked as such, where 13.2 and then Leap are known stable versions/distros. Fedora should make 'Fedora Ultra - Bleeding Edge' release where it's same as OpenSuse's Tumbleweed, where it's always changing and updating kernels, and let users grab that if they want to be 'living on edge', and let Fedora 23 be stable release lol.

I digress, but regarding ARK, I had some issues with unrar'ing rar archives with ARK in Kubuntu Wily, or one of the OpenSuse's versions in it's developement, forget which one it was now. But installed Xarchiver and it worked great (that was Kubuntu), but filed bug about ARK in Ubuntu bugzilla and ARK's bug page forget link now, but appears fixed in latest Kubuntu Wily. I'm almost certain it worked fine in OpenSuse's versions. The only issue I had with Leap, was VLC player did double windows for playing movies, not keeping videos in one window pane even when 'play videos in main interface' was checked by default. I had two independent windows for it. In Fedora 23, it's fine.

I guess now at this point, since I just got replacement GeForce 210 card replacement from Newegg.com, is to figure out which distro I'll pick, and stick with it, and check out CentOS as well once, see how that is. Thanks again guys for replies. Last edited by Smooey; 19th November 2015 at 05:45 AM. If you wish to have 3D acceleration in 32bit packages such as Wine, be sure to install the appropriate 32bit version of the xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-libs package for your driver variant. For example, if you installed kmod-nvidia then you will require xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-libs.i686, but if you install kmod-nvidia-96xx, you will need xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-96xx-libs.i686. If using Fedora 11 you will need to use xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-libs.i586, with Fedora 10 or older use xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-libs.i386.

Guess I could just avoid that then right? I can't keep installing an OS, and wiping drive, and reinstalling all the time if I mess up, hence asking in advance.

Because it's what burnt out my card before in month's time, from too many wiping, installs, wiping, installs, wiping, installs, etc. Also, if kernel in Fedora updates, how would I know the nvidia drivers were dropped and then how to get them back again each time Fedora kernels update? Last edited by Smooey; 19th November 2015 at 07:27 AM. Dnf install akmod-nvidia 'kernel-devel-uname-r $(uname -r)' This should do the job. At least it worked for me today. Oh okay, thanks, but what specifies then you're driver number for the card though?

Like, mine is 340.96 now, it used to be 340.93? And what to run when/if you're driver gets dropped from each kernel update to Fedora 23? I'm wondering so I know for sure what needs ran each time in terminal to get the NVIDIA drivers back, or do I have to reinstall them totally each time.Or can I install them the hard way method like OpenSuse does, where you blacklist noveau drivers in terminal, and make way to your NVIDIA.run file, and run it./NVIDIA-LinuxxXX.run each time? I'm kinda leaning toward just installing Kubuntu Wily though, it's easier, it fetches the drivers needed automatically, and has less issues in general. Also in Fedora 23 there's new issue where right clicking on links, and choosing open in new tab, still opens new windows anyway. Browser jumps/flickers during opening new tab process, but ends up opening new windows. Didn't have this issue in OpenSuse and Kubuntu.

I never checked which driver number. Here are the installed nvidia components: rudolf@mephisto $ rpm -qa grep -i nvidia xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-340xx-libs-340.96-1.fc23.i686 xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-340xx-340.96-1.fc23.i686 akmod-nvidia-340xx-340.96-1.fc23.i686 kmod-nvidia-340xx-4.2.5-300.fc23.i686-340.96-1.fc23.i686 xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-340xx-kmodsrc-340.96-1.fc23.i686 With this installation all stuff is compiled with the next kernel version but you need to have 'dkms' and the 'kernel-devel' installed. I do not blacklist the nouveau driver at all. I never checked which driver number. Here are the installed nvidia components: rudolf@mephisto $ rpm -qa grep -i nvidia xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-340xx-libs-340.96-1.fc23.i686 xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-340xx-340.96-1.fc23.i686 akmod-nvidia-340xx-340.96-1.fc23.i686 kmod-nvidia-340xx-4.2.5-300.fc23.i686-340.96-1.fc23.i686 xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-340xx-kmodsrc-340.96-1.fc23.i686 With this installation all stuff is compiled with the next kernel version but you need to have 'dkms' and the 'kernel-devel' installed. I do not blacklist the nouveau driver at all. Hmm, alright, and where's instructions on how to install the 'dkms' and 'kernel-devel', I tried finding it on the guides for installing nvidia drivers and it's not there.

Thought those guides were 'complete'? Lol Or just tell me quickly how to install those two things, unless I must install rpmfusion first, before even doing nvidia drivers at all? Dnf install akmod-nvidia 'kernel-devel-uname-r $(uname -r)' dnf install dkms gcc kernel-headers Then reboot the system.

This should do it for all F23 kernels. Okay, thanks! Will try this, gotta install Fedora 23 fresh again first though, then dnf update it, then do the drivers. I dban'd drive while I slept, and installed graphic card and hdmi cable, now burning fedora to usb stick. I'll see how things go then, if I have many issues, then will probably go to another distro, cause I can't keep wiping and installing distros (like last time), it burns out the card quick (and had to be sent replacement card, which this one is currently). I'd hate to become newegg.com's first customer to get a 100th replacement graphics card within a year's time frame lmao.

Edit; Is it just me, or does the HDMI seem little bit blurry compared to the DVI-D single slot to HDMI cable or the regular old VGA to VGA cable. Lol Left half of screen is brighter and little more clear than other half (right side) of screen, odd. Last edited by Smooey; 19th November 2015 at 08:11 PM. Ok thanks, will check it then. What's better to use though, DVI-D single link plug from back of monitor to HDMI in back of card, or visa versus?

I got new 3ft hdmi to hdmi cable, but it's blurry like, and don't give nice crisp display. And monitor is NEC AccuSync LCD 24WMCX 24' monitor. Don't appear to have settings to edit from HDMI TV or HDMI LCD monitor settings in menu at all. Before when I had DVI-D single link to HDMI it was nicer with DVI-D in back of monitor and HDMI in card.

But sometimes the screen went nuts in OpenSuse Leap, like it tries to register itself every time it reboots, or I shut off monitor for several hours and turn back on monitor. Only one so far that seems to work in back of card or on-board Intel graphics is VGA to VGA. VGA from monitor to card, or VGA from monitor to VGA in tower itself.

Not using card. When doing DVI-D to HDMI in card, when it registers finally, its listing it as DVI I think it was (but under system settings for display, it registers monitor as HDMI-1). But little monitor popup sometimes says DVI too though.

Edit: I think the issue with the DVI-D to HDMI cable, is two of the pins in the DVI-D plug are pushed down a little bit compared to rest of the pins, hence getting some issues sometimes. I'll try and pull the pins up a little bit to have them level with other pins, unless that might damage the pins more, I'm not sure. But the HDMI to HDMI cable I just got makes things blurry, only other option is VGA to VGA cable and should or could have just forgotten the graphics card then. LOL Edit 2: Yeah, when hooking up the DVI to HDMI cable, it had to be PC-Mode to register it as DVI, and then noticed some flipping / flickering of the screen when booting to USB stick with installer of Fedora on it. So, this sucks. It's either HDMI to HDMI with blurry issue, or VGA to VGA with or without graphics card in there.

Hello, I have installed sucessfully the Snow Leopard Hazard 10.6.2. Here, part of my hardware and snow specs: ProductName: Mac OS X ProductVersion: 10.6 BuildVersion: 10A432 Kernel: Darwin Kernel Version 10.2.0: Tue Nov 17 01:24:40 EST 2009 CPU TYPE: AMD Athlon 64 Processor 3500+ Motherboard Gigabyte K8n-Pro-SLI My graphics card is a NVidia Geforce 210, and i am unable to work and change resolution. A black line on the right of screen appears.

Nvidia Geforce 210 Specs

I try to install all kind of inyectors (Nanit, NVinject, the netkas injector.multiple kexts and bad result) -or the same or black screen. I have reading also modify with osx86tools or efi editor to set the card, but i am unable and a little lost. Please, anybody can help me to make working this card? And get a real resolution without black parts. Thanks in advance to all! Thank you RSN for your response.

I can´t see in EFI Studio the card you comment: nvidia gtx 9500 /512 ram. By the way i select another similar and screen like out of resolution (i try also changing the NVCAP. Please RSN can you send me the plist file to the 9500 card to load with EFI Studio? Thanks in advance:mellow: I include the com.apple.boot.plist that you can use instead of your own. Its a GT 220 efi string with standard other stuff. Save your com.apple.boot.plist and copy this one to /Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration.

If it doesnt work, change back to your original com.apple.boot.plist (boot into single user mode). I tried this com.apple.boot.plist with a GT 210 card and it worked. And sorry its a Nvidia GeForce 9800 GTX G92 - 512 MB selection. Actually any Newer Geforce card works as long as you change the NVCAP. I couldnt include the com.apple.boot.plist with such name so i renamed it micomapplebootplist.txt. Rename it com.apple.boot.plist with plist extension and do as said above.

I include the com.apple.boot.plist that you can use instead of your own. Its a GT 220 efi string with standard other stuff. Save your com.apple.boot.plist and copy this one to /Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration. If it doesnt work, change back to your original com.apple.boot.plist (boot into single user mode). I tried this com.apple.boot.plist with a GT 210 card and it worked. And sorry its a Nvidia GeForce 9800 GTX G92 - 512 MB selection. Actually any Newer Geforce card works as long as you change the NVCAP.

I couldnt include the com.apple.boot.plist with such name so i renamed it micomapplebootplist.txt. Rename it com.apple.boot.plist with plist extension and do as said above. Hello, I try your com.apple.Boot.plist but unfortunately it seems not working. The result appears the same.

In system profiler only appears the default graphics and the same resolution without changes. I mean that i don´t need any injector or something. Any suggestion?

Review the following: In /system/library/extensions you have NVDAResman.kext. Right click for Show Packages Contents and open Contents-info.plist (with editor or xcode).

Check that IOKitPersonalities-IOPCIPrimaryMatch has your vendor-device Id (0x0XXX01de&0xFFF8FFF where first XXX is your card id (0a20 for gt220. GT 210 could be 0a65)).

You must be able to add this if not present. If you dont know how, copy the info.plist to the desktop, do the change and then move it again to the contents folder. Reboot and hopefully it works. You should have no Natit or any other enabler with this solution. If doesnt work I can only consider the motherboard having some issue int he BIOS.

Review the following: In /system/library/extensions you have NVDAResman.kext. Right click for Show Packages Contents and open Contents-info.plist (with editor or xcode). Check that IOKitPersonalities-IOPCIPrimaryMatch has your vendor-device Id (0x0XXX01de&0xFFF8FFF where first XXX is your card id (0a20 for gt220. GT 210 could be 0a65)).

You must be able to add this if not present. If you dont know how, copy the info.plist to the desktop, do the change and then move it again to the contents folder. Reboot and hopefully it works. You should have no Natit or any other enabler with this solution.

If doesnt work I can only consider the motherboard having some issue int he BIOS. I done the modifications to NVDAResman.kext according the instructions but unsuccessful I have read about Chamaleon RC5 bootloader have support for this card, but i install iti and it seems nothing relevant, the card is with the default driver The Bios is updated with the latest driver from gigabyte homepage. I am going to continue working, please give me more ideas Thanks in advance for help and efforts! For this card the HCL 10.6.2 shows GeForce 210 running: ' For 32 bit, you can use ATYinit, but the NVCAP may be wrong. I used this 44 custom EFI string with a corrected NVCAP, and added the extra keys from ATYinit's info.plist, and that lets me run in 64 bit' (working with efi string) In my case my graphics vendor is Gigabyte, but is the 'a65' one.

The chamaleon or any other kind of inyectors it seems unsucessful at this time:mellow: At first time, i am using AMD processor and i think that this 'may' not be the root cause of the graphics board issues. I try different chamaleon bootloaders including rc5 but not sucess. I have read also in any place (i don´t remember) that 10.6.3 OSX upgrade will give a 210 better support, but at least in my case (AMD) i can´t install combo 10.6.3 update without patchs, and i don´t think if at the moment there are a stable combo update for amd. I have to try all solutions possible, and of course i know and i am happy you have the same kind of graphics card running. I keep investigating and reading Thanks!! Reading some post: 'with the sojugarden myHack package and 10.6.3, the 210 just worked. MyHack uses a patched version of chameleon which seems to enable more video cards when GraphicsEnabler=yes.'

' The case now is search this package and upgrades and atempt in my AMD. Some progression. I download and install the Myhack installer from: Now, it seems this package install a chameleon with this GForce 210 drivers integrated, when boot, in System Profiler: ' GeForce 210: Chipset Model: GeForce 210 Type: GPU Bus: PCIe Slot: Slot-1 PCIe Lane Width: x16 VRAM (Total): 512 MB Vendor: NVIDIA (0x10de) Device ID: 0x0a65 Revision ID: 0x00a2 ROM Revision: xx.xx.xx - internal Displays: Display: Resolution: 1024 x 768 Pixel Depth: 32-Bit Color (ARGB8888) Main Display: Yes Mirror: Off Online: Yes Display Connector: ' Now, ONLY show the 1024x768 screen resolution. I can´t change it. By the way, i download and decompress with Pacifist the 10.6.3 combo update and replace the: NVDANV40Hal.kext, NVDANV50Hal.kext and NVDAResman.kext, but with no results. I try also adding some options to my com.apple.Boot.plist to force screen resolution but no result Here (part)of my Boot.plist options: Kernel machkernel Kernel Flags GraphicsEnabler yes Graphics Mode 1366x768x32 device-properties b000000100. So, what are the next steps to get fully resolution (and fully nvidia support) to get definetively more than 1024x768.

I include the com.apple.boot.plist that you can use instead of your own. Its a GT 220 efi string with standard other stuff. Save your com.apple.boot.plist and copy this one to /Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration. If it doesnt work, change back to your original com.apple.boot.plist (boot into single user mode).

I tried this com.apple.boot.plist with a GT 210 card and it worked. And sorry its a Nvidia GeForce 9800 GTX G92 - 512 MB selection. Actually any Newer Geforce card works as long as you change the NVCAP. I couldnt include the com.apple.boot.plist with such name so i renamed it micomapplebootplist.txt. Rename it com.apple.boot.plist with plist extension and do as said above.

Hola Senor, could you please help me? I have a GT 220 and it runs fine - except when I connect my second monitor, because after a while -sometimes in a matter of minutes - my system freezes up and the monitors lose their signal. I'm using Snow Leopard (10.6.4) and this is the info I have in my system profiler. Any help is truly appreciated.

If you need any other info please let me know. Look forward to your message.

Unknown nVidia card: Chipset Model: Unknown nVidia card Type: GPU Bus: PCIe Slot: Slot-1 PCIe Lane Width: x16 VRAM (Total): 1024 MB Vendor: NVIDIA (0x10de) Device ID: 0x0a20 Revision ID: 0x00a2 ROM Revision: xx.xx.xx - internal Displays: DELL E248WFP: Resolution: 1920 x 1200 @ 60 Hz Pixel Depth: 32-Bit Color (ARGB8888) Main Display: Yes Mirror: Off Online: Yes Rotation: Supported Display Connector: Status: No Display Connected. Review the following: In /system/library/extensions you have NVDAResman.kext. Right click for Show Packages Contents and open Contents-info.plist (with editor or xcode).

Check that IOKitPersonalities-IOPCIPrimaryMatch has your vendor-device Id (0x0XXX01de&0xFFF8FFF where first XXX is your card id (0a20 for gt220. GT 210 could be 0a65)). You must be able to add this if not present. If you dont know how, copy the info.plist to the desktop, do the change and then move it again to the contents folder. Reboot and hopefully it works. You should have no Natit or any other enabler with this solution.

If doesnt work I can only consider the motherboard having some issue int he BIOS. This worked for me on a Vaio VPCCW17 with a 210M (0a75). I was scratching my head, forgetting about this technique. Thank you very much!