F22 Black Screen with nVidia drivers

[Christopher Ross]

On 07/07/15 10:13, Ed Greshko wrote:
> On 07/07/15 17:09, Christopher Ross wrote:
>> But X is still trying to use nouveau. What is the missing step to tell X to use the nVidia drivers instead?
>
> Check the kernel parameters for the kernel being booted.  It should look something like this....
>
>      linux    /vmlinuz-4.0.6-300.fc22.x86_64 root=UUID=5c59b39b-3c31-480a-9265
> -5b25551eb64b ro rd.lvm.lv=fedora/swap rd.md=0 rd.dm=0 rd.luks=0  rhgb quiet nou
> veau.modeset=0 rd.driver.blacklist=nouveau video=vesa:off LANG=en_US.UTF-8
>

Simply installing the nvidia modules has set that automagically in the past.

root at snoopy 10:37:34 grub2 # grep "nouveau" /boot/grub2/grub.cfg
         linux16 /vmlinuz-4.0.6-300.fc22.x86_64 
root=/dev/mapper/fedora_snoopy-root ro rd.lvm.lv=fedora_snoopy/swap 
rd.lvm.lv=fedora_snoopy/root rhgb quiet nouveau.modeset=0 
rd.driver.blacklist=nouveau video=vesa:off


Regards,
Chris R.