A recent kernel update broke function keys on my wife's Dell XPS 13. Reverting to the prior kernel worked-around the issue. I haven't had a chance to pursue it any further.
So try an earlier kernel.On Sat, Sep 3, 2016 at 6:06 PM, Patrick Dupre <pdupre@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On 09/03/2016 01:46 PM, Patrick Dupre wrote:
> >> Sent: Saturday, September 03, 2016 at 10:06 PM
> >> From: "Samuel Sieb" <samuel@xxxxxxxx>
> > I can run without vga=normal, but if I run without nomodeset, the graphics
> > never starts and I have to restart the machine.
> > But even without vga=normal, I get the same behavior.
> >
> Sorry, I can't help you figure out what's wrong there. I completely
> avoid any computers containing NVidia graphics... If you don't have any
> need for the NVidia part, you might be able to disable it in the BIOS.
> I don't know why the Intel part isn't working for modesetting.
>
> >> If you really want to use the proprietary NVidia driver, get it from
> >> rpmfusion. At least then, it's easier to revert if necessary and it's
> >> much more likely to work.
> >
> > Do you mean:
> > xorg-x11-drv-nvidia
> > ?
> >
> That would be included. You want one of the akmod-nvidia* packages.
> Since it's a recent chipset, it would most likely be the "akmod-nvida"
> package. (Don't forget to install "kernel-devel" as well.)
Installing:
akmod-nvidia x86_64 1:367.35-1.fc24 rpmfusion-nonfree-updates 70 k
akmods noarch 0.5.4-3.fc24 rpmfusion-free-updates 25 k
kmodtool noarch 1-23.fc24 rpmfusion-free 17 k
xorg-x11-drv-nvidia x86_64 1:367.35-3.fc24 rpmfusion-nonfree-updates 3.9 M
xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-kmodsrc x86_64 1:367.35-3.fc24 rpmfusion-nonfree-updates 5.7 M
xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-libs x86_64 1:367.35-3.fc24 rpmfusion-nonfree-updates 17 M
The problem
> is that you will need to clean any mess left behind by the NVidia
> installer you tried to run before you install the package.
It looks like that every things is in /var/log/
-rw-------. 1 root root 49157 Sep 3 22:39 secure
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 292292 Sep 3 22:39 lastlog
-rw-rw-r--. 1 root utmp 59904 Sep 3 22:38 wtmp
-rw-r--r--. 1 root pdupre 48621 Sep 3 22:38 Xorg.1.log
-rw-r--r--. 1 root gdm 49050 Sep 3 22:38 Xorg.0.log
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 5910 Sep 3 22:38 firewalld
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 14857 Sep 3 22:38 boot.log
-rw-r--r--. 1 root pdupre 49943 Sep 3 22:34 Xorg.1.log.old
-rw-r--r--. 1 root gdm 50056 Sep 3 22:34 Xorg.0.log.old
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 462588 Sep 3 21:52 nvidia-installer.log
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