This is the cleanest way of getting the latest Nvidia drivers install on Fedora 17, we also need to disable the default nouveau driver after the installation.

Install RPMFusion Repository (free & non free)

Get root:

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su -

Enter the following commands to install the RPMFusion Repo:

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yum localinstall --nogpgcheck https://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/rpmfusion-free-release-stable.noarch.rpm https://download1.rpmfusion.org/nonfree/fedora/rpmfusion-nonfree-release-stable.noarch.rpm

Fedora 17 Nvidia Driver Install

For x86_64 users I have also included the i686 libs otherwise games in Wine will not rune (as I found out):

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yum install akmod-nvidia xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-libs xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-libs.i686

To Install Fedora 17 Nvidia PAE drivers you will need the PAE kernel devel:

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yum install kernel-PAE-devel kmod-nvidia-PAE

Disable Nouveau Driver from initramfs

Move the old initramfs image to prevent it from loading:

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

Create a new initramfs image:

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

You should now be able to reboot your desktop.