On 12/19/15 09:26, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
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.
Well, it wasn't "blindly"....but it certainly was a vision problem. I
pulled up the wrong
README. :-(
Thanks for pointing that out.
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