F42 Can't revert to Nouveau after failing to install nvidia drivers

Hello everyone!

Similar to a lot of people I’m having issues with nvidia drivers since I updated them.

I am on an Asus Proart Studiobook. Nvidia RTX 3060, Ryzen 7 5800H. Dualbooting Win11. Fedora 42, which was running fine until a recent nvidia driver update to 570.

booting any of the 3 kernels gives me a black screen with a static underscore. The rescue boot says I don’t have access to root. Booting the latest Kernel, I can still access the command line by waiting 30 secs ish and Alt+F5ing (or maybe another similar shortcut, my memory fails me).
I just want to revert to nouveau and give up on the proprietary drivers until a few updates go by before I try them again. So I uninstalled the nvidia drivers with sudo dnf remove '*nvidia*' --exclude nvidia-gpu-firmware and then made sure there was not this line in grub:

rd.driver.blacklist=nouveau modprobe.blacklist=nouveau nvidia-drm.modeset=1 initcall_blacklist=simpledrm_platform_driver_init

I also updated grub with sudo grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/grub2/grub.cfg
however the problem persists. I may or may not have made the problem worse by trying every recent solution given to the failing nvidia drivers, including trying to reinstall the drivers from bootable USB chroot, enabling and disabling secure boot, lots of grub config edits (which were all reset)

I know this is sparse information, I am a total noob at linux. I’ll do my best to give any logs required, although without a GUI I’ll admit it’s a bit of a pain to transfer the .txt to win to put it here :sweat_smile:
thanks in advance!

Did you have the RPMfusion nvidia drivers installed?
If so they should be working for you as the 3060 is supported GPU.

The reason for black listing nouveau is to allow the nvidia driver to be loaded.
And if that fails to load then there is a systemd service that loads the mouveau driver.