On 12/19/15 09:26, Ralf Corsepius wrote: > On 12/19/2015 01:44 AM, Ed Greshko wrote: >> >> >> On 12/18/15 20:14, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: >>> After rebooting I get the login screen but Plasma segfaults and Gnome >>> gives an oops and sad face so I've had to fall back to LxQT until I can >>> figure out what's going on. >> >> FWIW, I can confirm that akmod-nvidia-358.16-1.fc23.x86_64 breaks my system with the >> GeForce 8600M GS card (a rather old card in a laptop). >> >> Falling back to akmod-nvidia-340xx.x86_64 got things working again. You may want to >> consider giving that a try after checking and confirming 340xx is supposed to support your >> card. > That's to be expected. > > One cannot blindly install the latest "akmod-nvidia*". You need to find out which of > them is supposed to support your GPU on [1] and choose the corresponding *kmod-nvidia > package. > > According to this page the *-358.* series doesn't support the "GeForce 8600M GS" [2]. I > have an older desktop with a "GeForce 8600 GT", where the same applies. Well, it wasn't "blindly"....but it certainly was a vision problem. I pulled up the wrong README. :-( Thanks for pointing that out. -- In reality, some people should stick to running Windows and others should stay away from computers altogether. -- 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
