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 -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
