I know that the nvidia driver is proprietary software. Neither F22 nor F23 will boot on my laptop with kernels from the last 2 week or so and the latest nvidia drivers. When I attempt these kernel/driver combinations, it stops on the console screen which then begins flashing about once per second. My laptop boots normally and runs fine if I use the nouveau driver.
Does anyone know the cause or a work around for this situation ? Background Info Laptop: Dell XPS17, i7, 16 GB, SSD Video Card: NVIDIA GF116M [GeForce GT 555M/635M] rev a1 Linux experience: been using Fedora since RH8 OS experience: F21 and previous releases ran perfectly on this machine Current kernel: 4.2.2-300.fc23 x86_64 Current driver: 352.41-1, built by akmod. Log says it built and installed properly. I first observed the issue with a couple kernels in F22. I avoided them and ran with older kernels. When I updated to F23, for other reasons, the kernels that ran became unavailable. Now I have no kernels that will run with the nvidia driver. I might be jumping the gun saying this is a video driver problem. All I know is the console freezes during boot and the screen flashes. I could try to get an image of the screen content with my SLR if it would help. This is my first post to the testing list. Be gentle ! Also: where is the correct place to get nvidia updates from ? Right now I am using rpmfusion=rawhide. But I've seen people stating they are using a newer nvidia driver. Where are they getting it from ? Thanks.
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