Re: X server dies on startup with kernel-4.2.7-300.fc23.x86_64

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On Sat, 2015-12-19 at 12:28 +0000, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> On Sat, 2015-12-19 at 02:26 +0100, 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.
> 
> However it does support the GeForce GT 730, which is my card.

Just to follow up: I reverted to the 340.* driver and it now works (I
see it was updated for the latest X).

poc
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