F38 KDE spin - Nvidia card - Nouveau - dropping monitor off HDMI on sleep

[andrew-f-in-australia (Andrew F)]

Hi all,

Using the KDE spin of Fedora on a MSI laptop with an nvidia GeForce RTX 2060 card. Onboard monitor and two external monitors (25" 21:9 LG.) One external monitor is connected to the mini-DP connection (works perfectly) and the other to HDMI

I’ve lost a monitor connected to a HDMI output off a laptop for the last month. I tried to install NVIDIA drivers as per Jeff’s advice here - ended up with no graphics driver for the card and text based input (as per 1983 when I started working in DOS/Unix)

Fedora 38 not finding secondary monitor HDMI

Hey Jeff, Thanks for the guidance on how to troubleshoot this. I had a chance to plug into the TV today and run inxi -Fzxx. Never heard of that command before; very handy. It’s an Nvidia 1660 Ti card in a laptop. I tried every permutation of update, reboot, plug in and unplug etc. I ran this on my current system as installed; and on the same system when booted from a Live USB Fedora 38 beta. The USB is running the nouveau driver and the external HDMI works. While the current system is having …

Reformatted/Reinstalled the entire distro today.

It worked perfectly, until I walked away from the monitor and it went to sleep. The monitor is now not detected, even after reboot with it plugged in, and without being plugged in on reboot.

(1) Is there a command to reset wayland - sudo service restart ? or similar

(2) Is there a step-by-step guide to installing nvidia, I’m not a novice, but nvidia drivers have proved problematic to install for me.

[horace@MSI ~]$ xrandr
bash: xrandr: command not found...
Install package 'xrandr' to provide command 'xrandr'? [N/y] y


 * Waiting in queue... 
The following packages have to be installed:
 xrandr-1.5.2-2.fc38.x86_64     Commandline utility to change output properties
Proceed with changes? [N/y] y


 * Waiting in queue... 
 * Waiting for authentication... 
 * Waiting in queue... 
 * Downloading packages... 
 * Requesting data... 
 * Testing changes... 
 * Installing packages... 
Screen 0: minimum 16 x 16, current 7040 x 1289, maximum 32767 x 32767
XWAYLAND0 connected primary 1920x1080+2560+209 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 380mm x 210mm
   1920x1080    143.88*+
   1440x1080    143.80  
   1400x1050    143.89  
   1280x1024    143.79  
   1280x960     143.86  
   1152x864     143.92  
   1024x768     143.87  
   800x600      143.83  
   640x480      143.85  
   320x240      142.05  
   1680x1050    143.88  
   1440x900     143.86  
   1280x800     143.84  
   720x480      143.85  
   640x400      143.37  
   320x200      141.40  
   1600x900     143.93  
   1368x768     143.77  
   1280x720     143.85  
   1024x576     143.91  
   864x486      143.63  
   720x400      143.88  
   640x350      143.57  
XWAYLAND1 connected 2560x1080+4480+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 580mm x 240mm
   2560x1080     59.98*+
   1440x1080     59.99  
   1400x1050     59.98  
   1280x1024     59.89  
   1280x960      59.94  
   1152x864      59.96  
   1024x768      59.92  
   800x600       59.86  
   640x480       59.38  
   320x240       59.52  
   1680x1050     59.95  
   1440x900      59.89  
   1280x800      59.81  
   720x480       59.71  
   640x400       59.95  
   320x200       58.96  
   1920x1080     59.96  
   1600x900      59.95  
   1368x768      59.88  
   1280x720      59.86  
   1024x576      59.90  
   864x486       59.92  
   720x400       59.55  
   640x350       59.77  
XWAYLAND3 connected 2560x1080+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 670mm x 280mm
   2560x1080     59.98*+
   1440x1080     59.99  
   1400x1050     59.98  
   1280x1024     59.89  
   1280x960      59.94  
   1152x864      59.96  
   1024x768      59.92  
   800x600       59.86  
   640x480       59.38  
   320x240       59.52  
   1680x1050     59.95  
   1440x900      59.89  
   1280x800      59.81  
   720x480       59.71  
   640x400       59.95  
   320x200       58.96  
   1920x1080     59.96  
   1600x900      59.95  
   1368x768      59.88  
   1280x720      59.86  
   1024x576      59.90  
   864x486       59.92  
   720x400       59.55  
   640x350       59.77  

[horace@MSI ~]$ xrandr
Screen 0: minimum 16 x 16, current 7040 x 1289, maximum 32767 x 32767
XWAYLAND0 connected primary 1920x1080+2560+209 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 380mm x 210mm
   1920x1080    143.88*+
   1440x1080    143.80  
   1400x1050    143.89  
   1280x1024    143.79  
   1280x960     143.86  
   1152x864     143.92  
   1024x768     143.87  
   800x600      143.83  
   640x480      143.85  
   320x240      142.05  
   1680x1050    143.88  
   1440x900     143.86  
   1280x800     143.84  
   720x480      143.85  
   640x400      143.37  
   320x200      141.40  
   1600x900     143.93  
   1368x768     143.77  
   1280x720     143.85  
   1024x576     143.91  
   864x486      143.63  
   720x400      143.88  
   640x350      143.57  
XWAYLAND1 connected 2560x1080+4480+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 580mm x 240mm
   2560x1080     59.98*+
   1440x1080     59.99  
   1400x1050     59.98  
   1280x1024     59.89  
   1280x960      59.94  
   1152x864      59.96  
   1024x768      59.92  
   800x600       59.86  
   640x480       59.38  
   320x240       59.52  
   1680x1050     59.95  
   1440x900      59.89  
   1280x800      59.81  
   720x480       59.71  
   640x400       59.95  
   320x200       58.96  
   1920x1080     59.96  
   1600x900      59.95  
   1368x768      59.88  
   1280x720      59.86  
   1024x576      59.90  
   864x486       59.92  
   720x400       59.55  
   640x350       59.77  
XWAYLAND3 connected 2560x1080+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 670mm x 280mm
   2560x1080     59.98*+
   1440x1080     59.99  
   1400x1050     59.98  
   1280x1024     59.89  
   1280x960      59.94  
   1152x864      59.96  
   1024x768      59.92  
   800x600       59.86  
   640x480       59.38  
   320x240       59.52  
   1680x1050     59.95  
   1440x900      59.89  
   1280x800      59.81  
   720x480       59.71  
   640x400       59.95  
   320x200       58.96  
   1920x1080     59.96  
   1600x900      59.95  
   1368x768      59.88  
   1280x720      59.86  
   1024x576      59.90  
   864x486       59.92  
   720x400       59.55  
   640x350       59.77  
[horace@MSI ~]$ sudo inxi -Fzxx
[sudo] password for horace: 
sudo: inxi: command not found
[horace@MSI ~]$ sudo dnf install inxi
Last metadata expiration check: 2:30:51 ago on Sun 09 Jul 2023 17:17:44.
Dependencies resolved.
==============================================================================================================
 Package                           Architecture     Version                           Repository         Size
==============================================================================================================
Installing:
 inxi                              noarch           3.3.27-1.fc38                     updates           514 k
Installing dependencies:
 freeipmi                          x86_64           1.6.10-2.fc38                     fedora            2.0 M
 hddtemp                           x86_64           0.3-0.53.beta15.fc38              fedora             63 k
 ipmitool                          x86_64           1.8.19-2.fc38                     fedora            1.9 M
 lm_sensors                        x86_64           3.6.0-13.fc38                     fedora            142 k
 perl-Compress-Raw-Bzip2           x86_64           2.204-2.fc38                      fedora             34 k
 perl-Compress-Raw-Zlib            x86_64           2.204-2.fc38                      fedora             64 k
 perl-Cpanel-JSON-XS               x86_64           4.35-1.fc38                       fedora            149 k
 perl-JSON-XS                      x86_64           1:4.03-9.fc38                     fedora            107 k
 perl-Types-Serialiser             noarch           1.01-8.fc38                       fedora             19 k
 perl-XML-Dumper                   noarch           0.81-46.fc38                      fedora             25 k
 perl-XML-Parser                   x86_64           2.46-13.fc38                      fedora            235 k
 perl-common-sense                 x86_64           3.7.5-11.fc38                     fedora             29 k
 wmctrl                            x86_64           1.07-34.fc38                      fedora             35 k
Installing weak dependencies:
 perl-IO-Compress                  noarch           2.204-1.fc38                      fedora            268 k

Transaction Summary
==============================================================================================================
Install  15 Packages

Total download size: 5.6 M
Installed size: 20 M
Is this ok [y/N]: y
Downloading Packages:
(1/15): hddtemp-0.3-0.53.beta15.fc38.x86_64.rpm                               242 kB/s |  63 kB     00:00    
(2/15): ipmitool-1.8.19-2.fc38.x86_64.rpm                                     3.9 MB/s | 1.9 MB     00:00    
(3/15): lm_sensors-3.6.0-13.fc38.x86_64.rpm                                   589 kB/s | 142 kB     00:00    
(4/15): freeipmi-1.6.10-2.fc38.x86_64.rpm                                     3.7 MB/s | 2.0 MB     00:00    
(5/15): perl-Compress-Raw-Bzip2-2.204-2.fc38.x86_64.rpm                       536 kB/s |  34 kB     00:00    
(6/15): perl-Compress-Raw-Zlib-2.204-2.fc38.x86_64.rpm                        818 kB/s |  64 kB     00:00    
(7/15): perl-JSON-XS-4.03-9.fc38.x86_64.rpm                                   2.5 MB/s | 107 kB     00:00    
(8/15): perl-IO-Compress-2.204-1.fc38.noarch.rpm                              2.5 MB/s | 268 kB     00:00    
(9/15): perl-Cpanel-JSON-XS-4.35-1.fc38.x86_64.rpm                            1.1 MB/s | 149 kB     00:00    
(10/15): perl-Types-Serialiser-1.01-8.fc38.noarch.rpm                         330 kB/s |  19 kB     00:00    
(11/15): perl-XML-Dumper-0.81-46.fc38.noarch.rpm                              760 kB/s |  25 kB     00:00    
(12/15): perl-XML-Parser-2.46-13.fc38.x86_64.rpm                              3.5 MB/s | 235 kB     00:00    
(13/15): perl-common-sense-3.7.5-11.fc38.x86_64.rpm                           420 kB/s |  29 kB     00:00    
(14/15): wmctrl-1.07-34.fc38.x86_64.rpm                                       533 kB/s |  35 kB     00:00    
(15/15): inxi-3.3.27-1.fc38.noarch.rpm                                        4.1 MB/s | 514 kB     00:00    
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Total                                                                         1.3 MB/s | 5.6 MB     00:04     
Running transaction check
Transaction check succeeded.
Running transaction test
Transaction test succeeded.
Running transaction
  Preparing        :                                                                                      1/1 
  Installing       : perl-common-sense-3.7.5-11.fc38.x86_64                                              1/15 
  Installing       : perl-Types-Serialiser-1.01-8.fc38.noarch                                            2/15 
  Installing       : perl-JSON-XS-1:4.03-9.fc38.x86_64                                                   3/15 
  Installing       : wmctrl-1.07-34.fc38.x86_64                                                          4/15 
  Installing       : perl-XML-Parser-2.46-13.fc38.x86_64                                                 5/15 
  Installing       : perl-Cpanel-JSON-XS-4.35-1.fc38.x86_64                                              6/15 
  Installing       : perl-Compress-Raw-Zlib-2.204-2.fc38.x86_64                                          7/15 
  Installing       : perl-Compress-Raw-Bzip2-2.204-2.fc38.x86_64                                         8/15 
  Installing       : perl-IO-Compress-2.204-1.fc38.noarch                                                9/15 
  Installing       : perl-XML-Dumper-0.81-46.fc38.noarch                                                10/15 
  Installing       : lm_sensors-3.6.0-13.fc38.x86_64                                                    11/15 
  Running scriptlet: lm_sensors-3.6.0-13.fc38.x86_64                                                    11/15 
Created symlink /etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/lm_sensors.service → /usr/lib/systemd/system/lm_sensors.service.

  Installing       : ipmitool-1.8.19-2.fc38.x86_64                                                      12/15 
  Installing       : hddtemp-0.3-0.53.beta15.fc38.x86_64                                                13/15 
  Running scriptlet: hddtemp-0.3-0.53.beta15.fc38.x86_64                                                13/15 
  Installing       : freeipmi-1.6.10-2.fc38.x86_64                                                      14/15 
  Installing       : inxi-3.3.27-1.fc38.noarch                                                          15/15 
  Running scriptlet: inxi-3.3.27-1.fc38.noarch                                                          15/15 
  Verifying        : freeipmi-1.6.10-2.fc38.x86_64                                                       1/15 
  Verifying        : hddtemp-0.3-0.53.beta15.fc38.x86_64                                                 2/15 
  Verifying        : ipmitool-1.8.19-2.fc38.x86_64                                                       3/15 
  Verifying        : lm_sensors-3.6.0-13.fc38.x86_64                                                     4/15 
  Verifying        : perl-Compress-Raw-Bzip2-2.204-2.fc38.x86_64                                         5/15 
  Verifying        : perl-Compress-Raw-Zlib-2.204-2.fc38.x86_64                                          6/15 
  Verifying        : perl-Cpanel-JSON-XS-4.35-1.fc38.x86_64                                              7/15 
  Verifying        : perl-IO-Compress-2.204-1.fc38.noarch                                                8/15 
  Verifying        : perl-JSON-XS-1:4.03-9.fc38.x86_64                                                   9/15 
  Verifying        : perl-Types-Serialiser-1.01-8.fc38.noarch                                           10/15 
  Verifying        : perl-XML-Dumper-0.81-46.fc38.noarch                                                11/15 
  Verifying        : perl-XML-Parser-2.46-13.fc38.x86_64                                                12/15 
  Verifying        : perl-common-sense-3.7.5-11.fc38.x86_64                                             13/15 
  Verifying        : wmctrl-1.07-34.fc38.x86_64                                                         14/15 
  Verifying        : inxi-3.3.27-1.fc38.noarch                                                          15/15 

Installed:
  freeipmi-1.6.10-2.fc38.x86_64                         hddtemp-0.3-0.53.beta15.fc38.x86_64                   
  inxi-3.3.27-1.fc38.noarch                             ipmitool-1.8.19-2.fc38.x86_64                         
  lm_sensors-3.6.0-13.fc38.x86_64                       perl-Compress-Raw-Bzip2-2.204-2.fc38.x86_64           
  perl-Compress-Raw-Zlib-2.204-2.fc38.x86_64            perl-Cpanel-JSON-XS-4.35-1.fc38.x86_64                
  perl-IO-Compress-2.204-1.fc38.noarch                  perl-JSON-XS-1:4.03-9.fc38.x86_64                     
  perl-Types-Serialiser-1.01-8.fc38.noarch              perl-XML-Dumper-0.81-46.fc38.noarch                   
  perl-XML-Parser-2.46-13.fc38.x86_64                   perl-common-sense-3.7.5-11.fc38.x86_64                
  wmctrl-1.07-34.fc38.x86_64                           

Complete!
[horace@MSI ~]$ sudo inxi -Fzxx
System:
  Kernel: 6.3.11-200.fc38.x86_64 arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc
    v: 2.39-9.fc38 Console: pty pts/1 wm: kwin_wayland DM: SDDM Distro: Fedora
    release 38 (Thirty Eight)
Machine:
  Type: Laptop System: Micro-Star product: GE75 Raider 9SE v: REV:1.0
    serial: <filter> Chassis: type: 10 serial: <filter>
  Mobo: Micro-Star model: MS-17E2 v: REV:1.0 serial: <filter>
    UEFI: American Megatrends v: E17E2IMS.11A date: 05/19/2020
Battery:
  ID-1: BAT1 charge: 33.0 Wh (82.7%) condition: 39.9/51.6 Wh (77.5%)
    volts: 11.7 min: 10.9 model: MSI BIF0_9 serial: N/A status: not charging
  Device-1: hidpp_battery_0 model: Logitech K850 Performance Wireless
    Keyboard serial: <filter> charge: 100% (should be ignored)
    status: discharging
CPU:
  Info: 6-core model: Intel Core i7-9750H bits: 64 type: MT MCP
    arch: Coffee Lake rev: D cache: L1: 384 KiB L2: 1.5 MiB L3: 12 MiB
  Speed (MHz): avg: 2150 high: 2600 min/max: 800/4500 cores: 1: 800 2: 2600
    3: 2600 4: 2600 5: 2600 6: 2600 7: 2600 8: 2600 9: 800 10: 2600 11: 2600
    12: 800 bogomips: 62399
  Flags: avx avx2 ht lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx
Graphics:
  Device-1: Intel CoffeeLake-H GT2 [UHD Graphics 630] vendor: Micro-Star MSI
    driver: i915 v: kernel arch: Gen-9.5 ports: active: eDP-1 empty: none
    bus-ID: 00:02.0 chip-ID: 8086:3e9b
  Device-2: NVIDIA TU106M [GeForce RTX 2060 Mobile] vendor: Micro-Star MSI
    driver: nouveau v: kernel arch: Turing pcie: speed: 8 GT/s lanes: 16 ports:
    active: DP-1,HDMI-A-1 empty: none bus-ID: 01:00.0 chip-ID: 10de:1f11
    temp: 48.0 C
  Device-3: Bison HD Webcam driver: uvcvideo type: USB rev: 2.0
    speed: 480 Mb/s lanes: 1 bus-ID: 1-13:7 chip-ID: 5986:211c
  Display: server: X.Org v: 22.1.9 with: Xwayland v: 22.1.9
    compositor: kwin_wayland driver: X: loaded: modesetting unloaded: fbdev,vesa
    dri: iris gpu: i915,nouveau display-ID: :0 screens: 1
  Screen-1: 0 s-res: 7040x1289 s-dpi: 96
  Monitor-1: DP-1 mapped: XWAYLAND0 pos: primary,bottom-c
    model: LG (GoldStar) ULTRAWIDE res: 1920x1080 dpi: 128 diag: 628mm (24.7")
  Monitor-2: eDP-1 mapped: XWAYLAND1 pos: top-right
    model: ChiMei InnoLux 0x1760 res: 2560x1080 dpi: 112 diag: 437mm (17.2")
  Monitor-3: HDMI-A-1 mapped: XWAYLAND3 pos: top-left
    model: LG (GoldStar) ULTRAWIDE res: 2560x1080 dpi: 97 diag: 730mm (28.8")
  API: OpenGL v: 4.6 Mesa 23.1.3 renderer: Mesa Intel UHD Graphics 630 (CFL
    GT2) direct-render: Yes
Audio:
  Device-1: Intel Cannon Lake PCH cAVS vendor: Micro-Star MSI
    driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus-ID: 00:1f.3 chip-ID: 8086:a348
  Device-2: NVIDIA TU106 High Definition Audio vendor: Micro-Star MSI
    driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel pcie: speed: 8 GT/s lanes: 16
    bus-ID: 01:00.1 chip-ID: 10de:10f9
  API: ALSA v: k6.3.11-200.fc38.x86_64 status: kernel-api
  Server-1: PipeWire v: 0.3.73 status: n/a (root, process) with:
    1: pipewire-pulse status: active 2: wireplumber status: active
    3: pipewire-alsa type: plugin 4: pw-jack type: plugin
Network:
  Device-1: Intel Cannon Lake PCH CNVi WiFi vendor: Rivet Networks Killer
    Wireless-AC 1550i Wireless driver: iwlwifi v: kernel bus-ID: 00:14.3
    chip-ID: 8086:a370
  IF: wlo1 state: up mac: <filter>
  Device-2: Qualcomm Atheros Killer E2500 Gigabit Ethernet
    vendor: Micro-Star MSI driver: alx v: kernel pcie: speed: 2.5 GT/s lanes: 1
    port: 3000 bus-ID: 05:00.0 chip-ID: 1969:e0b1
  IF: enp5s0 state: down mac: <filter>
Bluetooth:
  Device-1: Intel Bluetooth 9460/9560 Jefferson Peak (JfP) driver: btusb
    v: 0.8 type: USB rev: 2.0 speed: 12 Mb/s lanes: 1 bus-ID: 1-14:8
    chip-ID: 8087:0aaa
  Report: rfkill ID: hci0 rfk-id: 0 state: up address: see --recommends
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 2.98 TiB used: 1.28 TiB (43.0%)
  ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 vendor: Western Digital model: WDS250G3X0C-00SJG0
    size: 232.89 GiB speed: 31.6 Gb/s lanes: 4 serial: <filter> temp: 47.9 C
  ID-2: /dev/nvme1n1 vendor: Samsung model: MZVLB1T0HALR-00000
    size: 953.87 GiB speed: 31.6 Gb/s lanes: 4 serial: <filter> temp: 39.9 C
  ID-3: /dev/sda vendor: Western Digital model: WD20SPZX-22UA7T0
    size: 1.82 TiB speed: 6.0 Gb/s serial: <filter> temp: 35 C
Partition:
  ID-1: / size: 231.3 GiB used: 5.72 GiB (2.5%) fs: btrfs dev: /dev/nvme0n1p3
  ID-2: /boot size: 973.4 MiB used: 245.3 MiB (25.2%) fs: ext4
    dev: /dev/nvme0n1p2
  ID-3: /boot/efi size: 598.8 MiB used: 17.4 MiB (2.9%) fs: vfat
    dev: /dev/nvme0n1p1
  ID-4: /home size: 231.3 GiB used: 5.72 GiB (2.5%) fs: btrfs
    dev: /dev/nvme0n1p3
Swap:
  ID-1: swap-1 type: zram size: 8 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) priority: 100
    dev: /dev/zram0
Sensors:
  System Temperatures: cpu: 52.0 C pch: 55.0 C mobo: N/A gpu: nouveau
    temp: 48.0 C
  Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A gpu: nouveau fan: 0
Info:
  Processes: 374 Uptime: 9m Memory: available: 31.18 GiB
  used: 3.61 GiB (11.6%) Init: systemd v: 253 target: graphical (5)
  default: graphical Compilers: N/A Packages: pm: rpm pkgs: N/A
  note: see --rpm Shell: Bash v: 5.2.15 running-in: konsole inxi: 3.3.27
[horace@MSI ~]$ nvidia-smi
bash: nvidia-smi: command not found...
[horace@MSI ~]$ sudo lsmod | grep nouveau
nouveau              3420160  2
drm_ttm_helper         16384  1 nouveau
i2c_algo_bit           20480  2 i915,nouveau
drm_display_helper    208896  2 i915,nouveau
ttm                   102400  3 drm_ttm_helper,i915,nouveau
video                  73728  3 msi_wmi,i915,nouveau
mxm_wmi                16384  1 nouveau
wmi                    45056  5 video,wmi_bmof,msi_wmi,mxm_wmi,nouveau
[horace@MSI ~]$ sudo lsmod | grep nvidia
i2c_nvidia_gpu         16384  0
[horace@MSI ~]$ dmsesg | grep secure
bash: dmsesg: command not found...
[horace@MSI ~]$ dmesg | grep secure
[    0.000000] secureboot: Secure boot enabled
[    0.018840] secureboot: Secure boot enabled
[horace@MSI ~]$ sudo dnf list installed graphics
Error: No matching Packages to list
[horace@MSI ~]$ sudo dnf list installed graphic
Error: No matching Packages to list
[horace@MSI ~]$ sudo dnf list installed wayland
Error: No matching Packages to list
[horace@MSI ~]$ sudo dnf list installed xorg
Error: No matching Packages to list
[horace@MSI ~]$ sudo dnf list installed nvidia
Error: No matching Packages to list
[horace@MSI ~]$

[computersavvy (Jeff V)]

That inxi output shows 3 monitors. I assume you are using a docking station with that laptop.

Have you tried (with the monitors powered on) unplugging then reconnecting the docking station?

Sometimes it seems an issue with the drivers that support the docking station in that once the first attached monitor is seen the additional one(s) are never scanned & configured. IIRC Most posts seem to show that connecting the docking station new after starting back up from suspend/sleep recovers all monitors.

[andrew-f-in-australia (Andrew F)]

Hi Jeff,

Internal Graphics card - nvidia RTX2060 - one connected laptop to hdmi port on laptop, the other connected to mini-DP on/from laptop.

Tried all commutations and permutations on boot with no success. The only thing that worked temporarily was reinstall Fedora.

I’ll give it one more go.

Aside - is there a command in fedora similar to the ubuntu “sudo service restart display-manager” command to force an internal reboot. My google search for 30 minutes couldn’t find it. [and as I type this, I thought chatGPT - it took 10 seconds, but “sudo systemctl restart display-manager.service” locks the computer and needs a hard reboot.]

[computersavvy (Jeff V)]

@andrew-f-in-australia

“sudo systemctl restart display.manager service”

That command should be as displayed in the image.
sudo systemctl status display-manager.service
to see the current status and
sudo systemctl restart display-manager.service
to restart the service.

However, I note that you are using the nouveau driver. Some have seen the black screen issue with the nouveau driver and have been able to fix it by installing the nvidia drivers from rpmfusion.
https://rpmfusion.org/Howto/NVIDIA

[andrew-f-in-australia (Andrew F)]

yep - I did type correctly. Just transcribed in a rush. Thanks for the pickup. I’ll correct the original

I’ll keep on soldiering on with trying to get Nvidia working.

Thanks again for your help.