F22 Black Screen with nVidia drivers

[Christopher Ross]

On 06/07/15 14:31, Richard Shaw wrote:
> I think you've been bitten by a recent bug that's cropped up with dnf.
> Yum chose the shorted name by default that met a particular requirement
> so kernel-devel was chosen over kernel-debug-devel, but dnf doesn't do
> this. Dnf isn't "wrong" but it does create a serious inconvenience.
>

In my case the machine is running the non-debug kernel but installing 
xorg-x11-drv-nvidia brought in the debug headers. I installed the 
non-debug headers too and now the module builds.


root at snoopy 14:51:53 ~ # dnf install kernel-devel
Last metadata expiration check performed 1:23:10 ago on Mon Jul  6 
13:28:58 2015.
Dependencies resolved.
===================================================================================================================================
  Package                          Arch                       Version 
                           Repository                   Size
===================================================================================================================================
Installing:
  kernel-devel                     x86_64 
4.0.6-300.fc22                      updates                     9.4 M

Transaction Summary
===================================================================================================================================
Install  1 Package

Total download size: 9.4 M
Installed size: 35 M
Is this ok [y/N]: y
Downloading Packages:
kernel-devel-4.0.6-300.fc22.x86_64.rpm 
                            996 kB/s | 9.4 MB     00:09
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Total 
                            864 kB/s | 9.4 MB     00:11
Running transaction check
Transaction check succeeded.
Running transaction test
Transaction test succeeded.
Running transaction
   Installing  : kernel-devel-4.0.6-300.fc22.x86_64 
                                                         1/1
   Verifying   : kernel-devel-4.0.6-300.fc22.x86_64 
                                                         1/1

Installed:
   kernel-devel.x86_64 4.0.6-300.fc22 


Complete!
root at snoopy 14:52:34 ~ # !la
la /usr/src/kernels/
total 8.0K
drwxr-xr-x. 22 root root 4.0K Jul  6 14:11 4.0.6-300.fc22.x86_64+debug
drwxr-xr-x. 22 root root 4.0K Jul  6 14:52 4.0.6-300.fc22.x86_64
root at snoopy 14:52:39 ~ # !ak
akmods --force
Checking kmods exist for 4.0.6-300.fc22.x86_64             [  OK  ]
Building and installing nvidia-kmod                        [  OK  ]



Sadly, I can't check right now whether X can now happily use the nVidia 
drivers.

Thanks,
Chris R.