Setting up Fedore 17 and Nvidia Nvidia Quadro 600

Install Fedora from cd. By default the Nouvea based graphic driver wil be installed.

lspci |grep -i VGA
And see your graphics card is getting listed.

To install the driver firstyou need to shutdown the  Xserver.
 For this you can boot to runlevel 3 by typing in 
init 3 
from the terminal .
One in runlevel 3 your Xserver would stop working.Now change to su
su 
Now you needto install the required drivers from the repo. I have used the rpmFusin repo

rpm -Uvh http://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/rpmfusion-free-release-stable.noarch.rpm
rpm -Uvh http://download1.rpmfusion.org/nonfree/fedora/rpmfusion-nonfree-release-stable.noarch.rpm

yum install kmod-nvidia xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-libs

Once installed the kernel boot initramfs should be changed .

## Backup old initramfs nouveau image ##
mv /boot/initramfs-$(uname -r).img /boot/initramfs-$(uname -r)-nouveau.img
 
## Create new initramfs image ##
dracut /boot/initramfs-$(uname -r).img $(uname -r)

Now on restart you should boot with nvidia driver.....enjoi!!