latest kernel boots to a blank screen

[Michael Miles]

You must blacklist nouveau in the edit /etc/grub.conf and add the 
following to the end of the line(s) starting with 'kernel':

rdblacklist=nouveau



Before using the driver, you need to lower your system protection so 
SElinux doesn't prevent the driver to load.

setsebool -P allow_execstack on


http://rpmfusion.org/Howto/nVidia#head-205aab6f190d363e3915c0fa2e0681fc392aaeb6


Make sure the kernel extensions are intalled with the Nvidia Driver

That's it

Michael Miles


On 03/23/2010 09:52 AM, Kevin Kempter wrote:
> Hi all;
>
> I've updated to the latest kernel and it boots to a blank screen, nvidia does
> not start.
>
> Here's what I have installed:
>
> [/root]
> root at Issac # rpm -qa | grep kernel | sort
> abrt-addon-kerneloops-1.0.8-2.fc12.x86_64
> kernel-2.6.31.12-174.2.19.fc12.x86_64
> kernel-2.6.31.12-174.2.22.fc12.x86_64
> kernel-2.6.32.9-70.fc12.x86_64
> kernel-devel-2.6.31.12-174.2.19.fc12.x86_64
> kernel-devel-2.6.31.12-174.2.22.fc12.x86_64
> kernel-devel-2.6.32.9-70.fc12.x86_64
> kernel-firmware-2.6.32.9-70.fc12.noarch
> kernel-headers-2.6.32.9-70.fc12.x86_64
>
> [/root]
> root at Issac # rpm -qa | grep nvidia | sort
> akmod-nvidia-190.53-3.fc12.x86_64
> kmod-nvidia-190.53-3.fc12.x86_64
> kmod-nvidia-2.6.31.12-174.2.19.fc12.x86_64-190.53-1.fc12.4.x86_64
> kmod-nvidia-2.6.31.12-174.2.22.fc12.x86_64-190.53-3.fc12.x86_64
> kmod-nvidia-2.6.32.9-70.fc12.x86_64-190.53-3.fc12.x86_64
> nvidia-settings-1.0-3.4.fc12.x86_64
> nvidia-xconfig-1.0-2.fc12.x86_64
> xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-190.53-4.fc12.x86_64
> xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-libs-190.53-4.fc12.x86_64
>
>
> f I boot into the 2.6.31.12 kernel all is fine.
>
> Any help, advice, thoughts?
>
>
> Thanks in advance
>