Digging in a bit it appears to be something going on between SDDM, the nVidia drivers and ACPI. I don't have the time to go much further right now so I'll run it with the Nouveau drivers until Dell release the Developer edition and see how they do it! :)
Thomas On Thu, Aug 9, 2018 at 10:15 PM Ed Greshko <ed.gres...@greshko.com> wrote: > On 08/10/18 12:23, Thomas Letherby wrote: > > > > I'm trying to install the KDE spin on a Dell XPS 15 and I can't seem to > get the > > nVidia drivers to install. > > > > I installed via a USB stick, and I had to add the dis_ucode_ldr switch > to the boot > > options to get it to load and change to ACIP rather than RAID for the > drive, but it > > installed without issue after that and seems to be working fine with the > Noveau > > drivers, however I cannot seem to get nVidia drivers to install > correctly. > > > > I'm trying to use the workstation RPMFusion repo, and they seem to > install OK, but > > after trying the guides here: > > > > https://rpmfusion.org/Howto/NVIDIA > > https://fedoramagazine.org/install-nvidia-gpu/ > > (I don't have the install drivers option for this one, I think that's > Gnome > > specific isn't it?) > > > > I get similar results, namely a blank screen at login, which persists > for more than > > 10 minutes, so I don't think it's still building the drivers. > > > > If I switch to another tty I can startx and it will load KDE. It's like > it's not > > loading the login screen. > > > > I'm still searching through the logs but I've not found a smoking gun > yet, but just > > in case, has anyone got this to work, and if so how did you do it? > > > You say you can switch to another tty and using startx you'll get KDE up > and running, > yes? If that is the case then the problem is not the nVidia drivers as > they are > being used quite nicely in that instance. You can verify this by issuing > "lsmod | > grep nvidia" and it would generate an output similar to this in konsole. > > [egreshko@meimei Season-4]$ lsmod | grep nvidia > nvidia_drm 45056 7 > nvidia_modeset 1093632 22 nvidia_drm > nvidia 14061568 1057 nvidia_modeset > drm_kms_helper 196608 1 nvidia_drm > drm 458752 10 drm_kms_helper,nvidia_drm > ipmi_msghandler 57344 2 ipmi_devintf,nvidia > > If all this checks out, it would seem your problem is with the display > manager. What > do you get for "systemctl status sddm" > > FWIW, I'm running F28/KDE with nVidia RPMFusion drivers just fine with > GeForce GTX > 660 HW. > > -- > Conjecture is just a conclusion based on incomplete information. It isn't > a fact. > > _______________________________________________ > users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org > To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org > Fedora Code of Conduct: https://getfedora.org/code-of-conduct.html > List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > List Archives: > https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/ZLCVLRLY25SNJOUO5EE66HWSOEYURANQ/ >
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