We managed to get the card installed in the PC chassis and connected the power cables with the card and DVI-D cables with the monitor. When system started as normal, the whole monitor was in pink. By using Ctrl+Alt+F2 I switched to command line. The following command:

cd /boot
mkinitrd initramfs-`uname -r`.img

Didn’t work as expected but was necessary. I found that my old /etc/X11/xorg.conf was still there. When I backed it up, removed the file and reboot, the default nouveau driver kicked in and the X window was working.

Nouveau is good for most of users, but it’s not enough for a heavy graphical card user, such as gamers. Based on this article: http://rpmfusion.org/Howto/nVidia, we need to install the proprietary nVidia driver.

yum install vdpauinfo libva-vdpau-driver libva-utils akmod-nvidia xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-libs.i686

If you use 64 bit of Fedora and want to play 32 bit games, you need to install xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-libs.i686. Reboot.

When system is up,

glxgears -info

will show you which driver you are using.

Previously I installed bumblebee to my system and it was really ugly, so don’t install bumblebee on a desktop! It is designed for laptops.

For Steam users, you may need to issue a command when finishing the steps above to allow games to work with networking.

steam --reset