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

Sat Dec 19 01:26:34 UTC 2015

On 12/19/2015 01:44 AM, Ed Greshko wrote:
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> On 12/18/15 20:14, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
>> After rebooting I get the login screen but Plasma segfaults and Gnome
>> gives an oops and sad face so I've had to fall back to LxQT until I can
>> figure out what's going on.
>
> FWIW, I can confirm that akmod-nvidia-358.16-1.fc23.x86_64 breaks my system with the
> GeForce 8600M GS card (a rather old card in a laptop).
>
> Falling back to akmod-nvidia-340xx.x86_64 got things working again.  You may want to
> consider giving that a try after checking and confirming 340xx is supposed to support your
> card.
That's to be expected.

One cannot blindly install the latest "akmod-nvidia*". You need to find 
out which of them is supposed to support your GPU on [1] and choose the 
corresponding *kmod-nvidia package.

According to this page the *-358.* series doesn't support the "GeForce 
8600M GS" [2]. I have an older desktop with a "GeForce 8600 GT", where 
the same applies.

Ralf

[1] http://www.nvidia.com/object/unix.html

[2] Check the "supported products" tab on
http://www.nvidia.com/Download/driverResults.aspx/95165/en-us