Black screen with mouse visible after akmod-nvidia driver update with specific BIOS

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First of all I’m not sure if this is an akmod-nvidia driver, BIOS, Kernel, KDE or Fedora problem. Any guidance is appreciated.

When I use the latest BIOS (F37) (Gigabyte B650 Aorus Elite AX V2) and update akmod-nvidia to latest, after reboot and login screen I get a black screen, but I can see mouse. I can also access tty (cntrl + alt + F3) or get back to lock screen (super/win + L).

It seems to be a problem accessing KDE Plasma. It fails with X11 and Wayland session.

After several tests I can say that it works fine with BIOS F21, F32f and F36. Only F37 BIOS is failing.

Steps to reproduce the problem:

  1. F37 BIOS Fresh Install:
    1.1. Fresh Install Fedora 43 with F37 BIOS
    1.2. sudo dnf update, sudo reboot, sudo dnf install akmod-nvidia, sudo reboot
    1.3. Black screen after login screen.

  2. F36 BIOS Fresh Install posterior upgraded to F37 BIOS:
    2.1. Fresh Install Fedora 43 with F36 BIOS
    2.2. sudo dnf update, sudo reboot, sudo dnf install akmod-nvidia, sudo reboot. At this point it works.
    2.3. Upgrade BIOS to F37.
    2.4. Black screen after login screen.

    • 2.4.1 Downgrading to F36 BIOS solves it.

I don’t know if this is relevant, but Kernel 6.17.9, which latest akmod-nvidia driver uses, was released only 3 days after F37 BIOS release.

Setup:

  • CPU: AMD Ryzen 7800X3d
  • GPU: NVidia RTX4070TI Super
  • MoBo: Gigabyte Aorus Elite AX V2 B650
  • OS: Fedora 43.