>
> On 09/03/2016 01:46 PM, Patrick Dupre wrote:
> >> Sent: Saturday, September 03, 2016 at 10:06 PM
> >> From: "Samuel Sieb" <sam...@sieb.net>
> > 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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