On Fri, 2015-10-02 at 14:50 -0400, Fred Smith wrote: > On Fri, Oct 02, 2015 at 12:35:04PM -0600, linux guy wrote: > > I know that the nvidia driver is proprietary software. > > Neither F22 nor F23 will boot on my laptop with kernels from the > > last > > week or so and the latest nvidia driver. When I attempt these > > kernel/driver combinations, it stops on the console screen which > > then > > begins flashing about once per second. My laptop boots > > normally if I > > use the nouveau driver. > > Does anyone know the cause or a work around for this situation ? > > I'm FAR from an expert, but my GUESS would be that the Nvidia driver > doesn't yet support the newest kernels. One would hope that they will > catch up (soon), so I think either using the last kernel with which > it > works, or suffer with Nouveau for a while, until they catch up. Using 4.1.7-200 with the Nvidia driver and the akmod package with no problems. Make sure that akmod has run correctly and terminated without error before rebooting as there can be a race condition with dnf. See the thread starting at https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/users/2015-August/464224.html poc -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
