Re: Nvidia cards and Fedora 22 kernel upgrades

On 22/07/15 21:46, Richard Shaw wrote: > On Wed, Jul 22, 2015 at 12:57 PM, Roderick Johnstone <rmj(a)ast.cam.ac.uk > <mailto:rmj@ast.cam.ac.uk>> wrote: > > So, having copied the akmods.service file to /etc/systemd/system (as > Harald Reindl suggested) and added --force it is now building and > installing the kmod on reboot. > > (Actually I also removed --from-init which I realise now was > probably a mistake but probably not causing the problems I'm seeing > here.) > > However, the kernel module is not loaded and so the graphical > display does not start until either I reboot again or change run > levels and run modprobe nvidia. > > Any idea whats going on here? > > > Hard to say... It's supposed to run prior to the display manager so I'm > not sure why a reboot at that point would be necessary. > > One thing I just noticed is there doesn't seem to be a > display-manager.service symlink anymore, when gdm.service is enabled, an > systemd unit alias to display-manager.service is created... I would > think that would still work but it doesn't seem to be in your case. I'm actually using sddm so gdm.service is disabled for me and sddm.service is enabled. I do have a sym link: /etc/systemd/system/display-manager.service -> /usr/lib/systemd/system/sddm.service so I'm not sure why its not working as expected. > > I wonder if I should change the requirement to "Before=graphical.target"? I can certainly test that and report back if you like.