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

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

On Sat, 2015-12-19 at 02:26 +0100, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
> On 12/19/2015 01:44 AM, Ed Greshko wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > 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.

However it does support the GeForce GT 730, which is my card.

poc