On Fri, Nov 17, 2023 at 10:08 PM Stephen Morris <samorris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Hi, > I used dnf system-upgrade to upgrade from F38 to F39. After the > upgrade when I booted into gdm to login and start KDE, the machine hung > on KDE startup into X11. > Thinking it might be an nvidia UEFI enrolment issue with the F39 > nvidia drivers, I reset the machine and booted back into gdm. > I then used ctrl+alt+F2 to start a terminal interface. In that > terminal I went through the UEFI enrolment process but that said the > drivers were already enrolled. > I issued dmesg to see if there were any nvidia failure messages, of > which there none, but I did notice there were initialisation and what > looked like failure messages from Nouveau, but I don't understand why > there would be an Nouveau messages at all when Nouveau is blacklisted in > the kernel parameters in grub. > I then uninstalled all the nvidia drivers that were present. I then > used ctrl+alt+delete to reboot from the terminal. That process hung for > 1.5 minutes waiting for a job stop (I don't remember what it was waiting > on), and, when the 1.5 minute timer finished it then hung waiting for > XWayland to shut down. Why was it waiting for XWayland to shut down when > I don't use Wayland, I only use X11? > On reboot, I started up KDE under Nouveau, which doesn't work > properly with my BENQ 4K monitor, it can't determine what the monitor > is, so doesn't run in the right resolutions, although it does honour the > display scaling specified when using the nvidia drivers (which do > recognise the monitor and set things up properly). > I reinstalled the nvidia drivers and a subsequent reboot then > booted into KDE with any issues (which is where I'm sending this email > from). Why did this freezing of the nvidia drivers happen, is it because > the F39 nvidia drivers don't work properly with an update and have to be > installed from scratch to work properly? > Also, after reinstalling the nvidia drivers, at the gdm login > screen the display manager selection options only showed "Gnome", "Gnome > Classic" and "Plasma/X11", where are the options for all of those to > swap them between Wayland and X11 if I want to, that were present in F38 > before the upgrade to F39? A couple of thoughts in no particular order. I don't know how you should move forward with your issues. * The KDE spin uses Wayland, not X11. * The KDE spin uses SDDM, not GDM. * SecureBoot should be turned off if using tainted kernel drivers. Or, you can cutover to driver signing. I usually turn off SecureBoot because I don't like messing around with driver signing. In my case, it usually is due to VirtualBox, not NVIDIA. Jeff -- _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
