I solved the problem by booting to runlevel 1 and installing the nVidia driver for the card, a GeForce 8600GTS.
The nVidia dirvers can be found at: http://www.nvidia.com/Download/index.aspx?lang=en-us: The instructions can be found at: http://us.download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86_64/340.65/README/index.html ----- Original Message ----- > I have a similar problem upgrading Fedora 20 to Fedora 21. > Fedora 20 has no issues with kmod-nvidia. Fedora 21 boot > crashes at "Started Gnome display manager". > > ----- Original Message ----- > > On Fri, 12 Dec 2014 10:32:05 -0500 > > linuxnuts...@videotron.ca wrote: > > > > > I have the same card/chipset in another machine. Everything works > > > perfectly. > > > > I had fedora 21 alpha installed for testing on my system at work, > > and > > using akmod-nvidia with the rawhide rpmfusion repos worked fine > > back > > when I installed it, but when I reinstalled to get the official > > release, akmod-nvidia wouldn't work at all, and kmod-nvidia > > only provides 2D support on my maxwell card (but 3D was working > > in the alpha release). Something seems to have busted, or maybe > > just never made it from rawhide to the f21 release repos. > > -- > > 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 > > > -- > 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 > -- 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
