Re: need perm. fix for monitor/display problem. [solved]

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On 12/14/22 8:45 PM, home user wrote:

Last night, I ran "dnf upgrade" in a terminal as root.

It did about 750 items.

After the clean-up phase was done, it started the akmod processing (compiling).

After a few minutes, still during the akmod work (based on the ksysguard display), still in the "dnf upgrade" command (the terminal had not yet given me a new command prompt), the screen went blank. I could hear the cooling fans still surging. I waited about 15 minutes, and then turned the tower off via the power button in the back.

After a short while, the grub menu came up with a new entry (6.0.12-200.fc36.x86_64) on the top. I let the workstation boot up that new kernel by default. No problems. I quick-tried a few things (xv, Firefox, a youtube video in Firefox, LibreOffice, VLC, a large weather satellite image in Firefox). Everything seemed fine. I powered down for the night.

This morning, so far, no problems.

I don't know what happened last night with the screen blanking, but not noticing any further problems, I'm labelling this thread "solved".

I thank everyone who tried to help for their time, effort, and patience.

Bill.

f36; workstation is 9 years old; dual boot (the other OS is the nearly useless windows-7); dual monitor; stand-alone (not a part of a LAN, WAN, etc.); I don't have other hardware to fall back on, not even a cell phone; nvidia geforce gtx 660 graphics card; driver is from RPM Fusion non-free.

Note: I have no training or significant experience in sys. admin.

original problem:
On Nov. 03, I did my weekly "dnf upgrade".  This resulted in only one monitor working, and the display on that monitor looking fuzzy and horizontally stretched out.

diagnosis (from the Fedora users list):
The driver version installed by the "dnf upgrade" is not compatible with the latest kernel and needs updating.  The kernel version was 6.0.5-200.fc36.  The fixed nvidia 470 drivers were still in testing.

work-around until fixed nvidia 470 drivers pass testing and reach rpmfusion-nonfree-updates (from the Fedora users list):
1. back-up the initrd being used before the Nov. 03 "dnf upgrade".
2. use the kernel in use (5.19) before the Nov. 03 "dnf upgrade".
The recommended back-up was done on Nov. 04.  I've been using the 5.19 kernel exclusively since then.  I have not run "dnf upgrade" since Nov. 03.

current situation:
I'm using the 5.19 kernel exclusively.
I have not run "dnf upgrade" since Nov. 03.
The RPM Fusion web site page
"https://mirror.fcix.net/rpmfusion/nonfree/fedora/updates/36/x86_64/repoview/index.html"; now shows this...
---------------
Latest packages:

     2022-11-29: nvidia-settings-470xx-470.161.03-1.fc36
     2022-11-29: akmod-nvidia-470xx-470.161.03-1.fc36
     2022-11-29: kmod-nvidia-470xx-470.161.03-1.fc36
     2022-11-29: xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-470xx-470.161.03-1.fc36
     2022-11-29: xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-470xx-cuda-470.161.03-1.fc36
     2022-11-29: xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-470xx-cuda-libs-470.161.03-1.fc36
     2022-11-29: xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-470xx-devel-470.161.03-1.fc36
     2022-11-29: xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-470xx-kmodsrc-470.161.03-1.fc36
     2022-11-29: xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-470xx-libs-470.161.03-1.fc36
     2022-11-29: xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-470xx-power-470.161.03-1.fc36
(and other things not relevant to this issue)
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The original problem left my workstation quite crippled.  It took a lot of time and effort to research, construct, and post messages in the original list thread.  I don't have other hardware to fall back on, not even a cell phone.  Proceeding with the fix to the problem strikes me as risky.

first question:
Is what is currently in RPM Fusion non-free 36 updates everything I need to really fix the problem for f36?

Please don't jump the gun.  Just answer that first question.  If the answer is positive, I'll follow up with more questions.

further information:
Anyone wanting to view the original Nov. 03-04 thread, it's here:
"https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/thread/X6QCDYEIFO7DKZE5ENCHBCW776TC26WF/";.

Thank-you in advance.
Bill.
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