Fedora 17 not booting after installing akmod nvidia driver

[Swapnil Bhartiya]

On 06/04/2012 01:39 PM, Reindl Harald wrote:
> Am 04.06.2012 13:36, schrieb Swapnil Bhartiya:
>> I am revisiting the same problem that I faced with Fedora 16, and the reason I could not use it. I installed
>> 'akmod' and 'nvidia settings' from Yumex and when rebooted the screen was stuck at /
>>
>> em1: link becomes ready/
>>
>> I logged into tty3 and then removed akmod nvidia
>> [root at localhost ~]# yum remove akmod-nvidia.x86_64
>> [root at localhost ~]# yum remove akmods.noarch
>>
>> and now system is booting well. What is the problem? How can I use nvidia drivers without this issue. I am liking
>> Fedora 17 very much and would like to continue to use it as my primary OS along with Ubuntu.
> you should simply NOT upgrade to the latest fedora version soon
> after release if you rely on third-party drivers
I am running Ubuntu at the moment. The reason I could not use Fedora 16 
was this issue. I have been playing with Fedora 17 and liking it, so do 
want to use it as my primary OS. If installing nvidia drivers is an 
issue I can keep then disabled and try later. However, if there are 
instructions how to install nvidia drivers that will help.

Best
Swapnil

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> this is always the same discussion after each new release
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> F16 has the same kernel, firefox, thunderbird.....
> in this moment there is not much new in F17 for most
> workloads but you get usually a newer xorg which causes
> your problems and will do with each release in the future
> as long you are not willing to buy supported hardware
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