F22/23 + nvidia = no boot...

[linux guy]

I bet this is my problem.  I'll check tomorrow and report back.

On Fri, Oct 2, 2015 at 4:03 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan <pocallaghan at gmail.com>
wrote:

> On Fri, 2015-10-02 at 14:50 -0400, Fred Smith wrote:
> > On Fri, Oct 02, 2015 at 12:35:04PM -0600, linux guy wrote:
> > >    I know that the nvidia driver is proprietary software.
> > >    Neither F22 nor F23 will boot on my laptop with kernels from the
> > > last
> > >    week or so and the latest nvidia driver.  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 if I
> > >    use the nouveau driver.
> > >    Does anyone know the cause or a work around for this situation ?
> >
> > I'm FAR from an expert, but my GUESS would be that the Nvidia driver
> > doesn't yet support the newest kernels. One would hope that they will
> > catch up (soon), so I think either using the last kernel with which
> > it
> > works, or suffer with Nouveau for a while, until they catch up.
>
> Using 4.1.7-200 with the Nvidia driver and the akmod package with no
> problems. Make sure that akmod has run correctly and terminated without
> error before rebooting as there can be a race condition with dnf. See
> the thread starting at
> https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/users/2015-August/464224.html
>
> poc
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