installing nvidia drivers in fedora 17 64bit

first, update everything you need to update, reboot into the newest kernel
 
go to add/remove programs, search for nouveau, unclick and apply. don't reboot yet


run as root (and you will find these all over the net)

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 akmod-nvidia xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-libs

nvidia-xconfig

reboot and re-scan for udpates.