On Sat, 2015-12-19 at 12:28 +0000, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
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.
Just to follow up: I reverted to the 340.* driver and it now works (I
see it was updated for the latest X).
poc