X server dies on startup with kernel-4.2.7-300.fc23.x86_64

[Doug H.]

On Thu, 2015-12-17 at 22:01 +0000, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> On Thu, 2015-12-17 at 12:31 -0800, Doug H. wrote:
> > On Thu, 2015-12-17 at 17:24 +0000, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> > > On Thu, 2015-12-17 at 11:08 -0600, Michael Cronenworth wrote:
> > > > On 12/16/2015 07:10 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> > > > > I have an Nvidia card and use the proprietary driver, so I've
> > > > > blocked
> > > > > updates to X for the time being until RPMfusion gets the new
> > > > > kmod
> > > > > module for Nvidia version 352.63. In any case, my current X
> > > > > server
> > > > > is xorg-x11-server-Xorg-1.17.4-1.fc22.x86_64.
> > > > > 
> > > > > Rebooting with kernel-4.2.6-301.fc23.x86_64 works.
> > > > 
> > > > FYI, NVIDIA driver 358.16 supports Xorg 1.18.
> > > 
> > > I'm only seeing [a]kmod-nvidia-340xx in the repos.
> > 
> > 
> > I think you have used negativo17.org for HandBrake.  Have you
> > checked
> > out their Nvidia repo?
> > 
> > I use the negativo17 340 repo but I think the non-legacy Nvidia
> > drivers
> > have also gotten F23 support.  Or maybe you have a rare card, I
> > know
> > that *somebody* here mentioned that.
> 
> Negativo17.org was giving me problems (bad packaging) so I disabled
> it
> several days ago.
> 
> The problem with the Nvidia 340 series drivers is that they doesn't
> support X11 version 18, so I currently block X from updating. The
> latest kernel boots but maybe it doesn't work with a slightly older
> version of X. Seems odd but it's all I can think of.
> 
> My Nvidia card is a very ordinary GeForce GT 630.

I thought X11 version 18 support arrived.  I was waiting on that before
upgrading to F23 (which I did on 11/27).  Stuff seems to be working
well so far.  Main issue is that I have to run the F22 version of
"pan".  I currently have:

15:02-doug at wombat-~>rpm -qa | egrep -i "xorg-x11-server-Xorg|nvidia"
akmod-nvidia-340.96-1.fc23.x86_64
kmod-nvidia-4.2.6-200.fc22.x86_64-340.96-1.fc22.x86_64
nvidia-libXNVCtrl-340.96-1.fc23.x86_64
nvidia-driver-cuda-libs-340.96-1.fc23.x86_64
kmod-nvidia-4.2.6-301.fc23.x86_64-340.96-1.fc23.x86_64
kmod-nvidia-4.2.7-300.fc23.x86_64-340.96-1.fc23.x86_64
nvidia-settings-340.96-1.fc23.x86_64
nvidia-driver-340.96-1.fc23.x86_64
xorg-x11-server-Xorg-1.18.0-2.fc23.x86_64
nvidia-driver-libs-340.96-1.fc23.x86_64


The notes I keep for switching around:
(got tired of the work needed for using the Nvidia tarball so don't
have that here)

Beware of word wrap.

#############
Switching to nvidia via negativo17:

dnf remove \*nvidia\*
dnf config-manager --add-repo=http://negativo17.org/repos/fedora-nvidia
-340.repo
dnf install nvidia-driver akmod-nvidia

grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/grub2/grub.cfg
dracut -f

#############

Switching to nouveau (assuming it is still there):

dnf remove \*nvidia\*
grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/grub2/grub.cfg
dracut -f

#############
(not sure I tested this one, so use with care)
Switching to nvidia via rpmfusion:

dnf install kmod-nvidia-340xx xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-340xx akmod-nvidia-
340xx xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-340xx kmod-nvidia-340xx xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-
340xx-libs

grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/grub2/grub.cfg
dracut -f

#############


-- 
Doug H.