Bug 3479

Summary:	nvidia akmod fails graphical boot after upgrade from fc20 to fc21
Product:	Fedora	Reporter:	Michael Gooch <goochmi>
Component:	akmods	Assignee:	Richard <hobbes1069>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	major	CC:	kwizart
Priority:	P5
Version:	21
Hardware:	x86_64
OS:	GNU/Linux
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Description Michael Gooch 2014-12-30 23:46:21 CET

my workstation has:
NVIDIA Corporation GT200 [Geforce GTX 260] rev a1

my laptop has:
NVIDIA Corporation GF104M [GeForce GTX 485M] (rev a1)

after updating both, the laptop works fine, and the workstation cannot boot into graphical UI until I remove all nvidia related driver packages.

I have no idea whats causing this, and would like to resolve it. I use graphics acceleration in games and also use a dual monitor setup, and i'm not accustomed to using nouvea or whatever it is called (i have always had better performance from the nvidia drivers).

What should I do?

Comment 1 Michael Gooch 2014-12-30 23:53:31 CET

using the older akmod package seems to do the trick as far as booting,but I know this hardware can use newer drivers than that older akmod has been frozen to. Perhaps the newest akmod package is TOO new for this card, but not new enough to use the last available driver?

If I select a driver from the nvidia site (I'm not installing that one, just using it to find the most appropriate version number) The site returns the following info:
LINUX X64 (AMD64/EM64T) DISPLAY DRIVER
 
Version:	340.65
Release Date:	2014.12.8
Operating System:	Linux 64-bit
Language:	English (US)
File Size:	69.00 MB

clearly the 304xx drivers are much older than this

Comment 2 Michael Gooch 2014-12-31 00:40:43 CET

definitely causes a problem, these older drivers lack the opengl GLX functionality, and I cannot run steam or even minecraft to attempt to play anything.

Comment 3 Nicolas Chauvet 2014-12-31 00:44:32 CET


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 3416 ***