startx fails with new kernel

[Joe Zeff]

On 02/17/2012 10:46 PM, Marko Vojinovic wrote:
> The nvidia driver can be obtained in two different ways. One way is to download
> the appropriate .run file from nVidia website and run it. This is the*wrong*
> way, since it doesn't play nice with Fedora, overwrites some system files, and
> is a pain to remove once installed. The other way is to install (via yum) the
> package called akmod-nvidia, which is provided by the rpmfusion repository.

Third way: install kmod-nvidia, from the same repo.  This has the 
advantage that it's pre-built and needs no development packages or other 
baggage and the disadvantage that it sometimes lags behind the new 
kernel by a day or so, in which case you simply don't reboot into the 
new kernel until it does.