I’ve recently bought a new laptop [Thinkpad T480, i7-8650U, Nvidia MX150] and decided to use Linux for the first time and picked Fedora from friends recommendations.
Every part of the installation works fine until the very end. After pressing the “Start using Fedora” button in the initial setup everything is just frozen. Can’t move cursor, can’t access anything. I just see image attached. I’ve tried reinstalling it and doing what this forum post told me but it returns the same result. I need your help.
To continue the story. First time this happened I decided to force shut it off by the power button. Booting it up again it brings up the login screen. After entering the password it’s just a black screen. Right now I’m about to do the same thing with but with the nouveau parameter before boot again. Will update.
Hi Giuliano. Welcome to 
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Following the instructions in the link provided might have done more harm than good. That is an 8 years old topic. What part of the instructions did you follow exactly? I assume only the part regarding modifying the grub entry at boot, and not the part about updating the grub configuration in a terminal (given that you don’t seem to have a functional graphical session).
A few other assumptions (please confirm):
- You didn’t manage to run any updates or do any installations.
- Your system has both integrated as well as descrete GPU.
- You have installed Fedora Workstation 40.
Can you reach the console, by pressing Ctrl+Alt+F3, when the screen is frozen?
Please also check the following: when booting up, selecting the user from the login screen, before entering the password, press on the gear wheel in the bottom right corner of the screen. Which entries do you have there and which one is selected by default? If the default is GNOME , then select GNOME on Xorg and try logging in. What happens?
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Indeed I’ve only modified the grub entry at boot and if i recall correctly it should only last for one session
To confirm:
- The only thing I was able to do was the initial setup where I set my user and password
- Intel Graphics 620 and NVidia MX150
- Fedora 40
Selecting Gnome on Xorg seems to have done the trick. I’m now on the desktop. Do you think I will encounter any other issues related to this?
Well, you are currently only using a soon to be deprecated windowing system (X11) instead of the newer Wayland server. And second, you are not benefiting yet from the discrete GPU. Installing the appropriate Nvidia drivers might fix both issues.
I would do the following:
- Bring the system up to date, by running the upgrade command in a terminal:
sudo dnf upgrade --refresh. Wait for the system to perform the upgrade and report it as complete. It might take a while. - Install the necessary Nvidia drivers, by following the steps from RPM Fusion. Remember to follow the advise and give at least 5 minutes for the kernel modules to get built, before restarting the system. For now, RPM Fusion is the place to go for anything related to the proprietary Nvidia drivers.
- Restart the system and check if you can log into GNOME with Wayland.
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Did everything properly but I’m not getting a Wayland option. The Gnome option seems to work now though
Gnome means Gnome with Wayland. You should have trackpad gestures (swipes etc).
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Ah that’s brilliant. Thank you so much for the help!
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Note to future users visiting and myself:
Remember to do the secure boot steps before following the driver installation.
If you already did the driver installation without the secure boot steps:
- Disable secure boot
- Follow secure boot instructions from link above
sudo dnf remove kmod-nvidia-$(uname -r)to remove the old (unsigned) driversudo akmods --forceto build the new (signed) driver- Wait for it to finish (Can take up to 5 minutes)
- Reboot and enable secure boot during this reboot
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These steps have been replaced with the function of one command
sudo akmods --force --rebuild
which incorporates the first step into that command.
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