On Mon, Dec 22, 2025 at 5:22 PM Stephen Morris <[email protected]> wrote:
> [...] >>> >>> > The issue with the 6.18 kernel was, when I boot that kernel it tries to > use akmods to compile the nvidia driver and that compile fails, but > continues on in the boot process and displays the SDDM login screen to > login to KDE. When I supply my credentials it switches to a black screen > and then goes no further and I can't enter any keyboard input to user > ctrl+F3 to switch to a terminal, the only option I have is to use the > physical reset button to reboot. That black screen issue is the same issue > I get if the nvidia driver I'm trying to use is not signed. > As I said above, I removed the Nouveau blacklisting from the kernel grub > entry, but that made no difference to the black screen issue. In trying to > figure out how to get the nvidia driver to compile for that kernel I > somehow managed to get DNF to install more kernels than the maximum 3 it > allows, hence filled my 1.5GB boot partition, so some of the install > scripts at the time failed because of lack of space. > With what I tried to do to get the nvidia driver compiled I destroyed the > ability for my system to get past the black screen issue on all kernels I > had installed, so because I was doing this on my live system and not in a > VM I reinstalled F43 again, so at the moment I don't have the 6.18 kernel. > > You should try again to see if your WiFi works. I generally try to test both very new and very old hardware as developers may not have access to that hardware. -- George N. White III
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