Fresh install on a HP omen laptop with Nvidia 3070 hybrid graphics. Seems to be getting to nouveau and stopping after removing rhgb quiet. No way to get a prompt, it’s a paperweight. Blacklisting nouveau and it still hangs without a prompt infinitely.
Pretty disheartening I’ve been using Fedora on this machine for years and recommended it heavily. This isn’t a niche setup.
Can you disable the dGPU from bios to get into the OS and then install Nvidia?
After that reenable dGPU
BIOS options are only hybrid or discrete.
Did you install 3rd party Nvidia drivers or updates after the fresh install? Did you try getting a text console ()? Post the output from running inxi -Fzxx as web searchable pre-formatted text. This may help identify a problematic hardware configuration and also warn others with similar hardware of a potential problem.
Which are you using? Did you try the other option?
Single reboot after fresh install, completely vanilla.
Below is the output of ixni -Fzxx:
System:
Kernel: 6.17.1-300.fc43.x86_64 arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 15.2.1
Desktop: KDE Plasma v: 6.4.5 tk: Qt v: N/A wm: kwin_wayland dm: SDDM
Distro: Fedora Linux 43 (KDE Plasma Desktop Edition)
Machine:
Type: Laptop System: HP product: OMEN by HP Laptop 17-ck1xxx v: N/A
serial: <superuser required> Chassis: type: 10 serial: <superuser required>
Mobo: HP model: 8A17 v: 32.26 serial: <superuser required>
part-nu: 63J07UA#ABA UEFI: AMI v: F.22 date: 04/28/2025
Battery:
ID-1: BAT0 charge: 72.8 Wh (100%) condition: 72.8/83 Wh (87.7%) volts: 13
min: 11.58 model: HP Primary serial: <filter> charging: status: full
cycles: 118
CPU:
Info: 14-core (6-mt/8-st) model: 12th Gen Intel Core i7-12700H bits: 64
type: MST AMCP arch: Alder Lake rev: 3 cache: L1: 1.2 MiB L2: 11.5 MiB
L3: 24 MiB
Speed (MHz): avg: 1171 min/max: 400/4600:4700:3500 cores: 1: 1171 2: 1171
3: 1171 4: 1171 5: 1171 6: 1171 7: 1171 8: 1171 9: 1171 10: 1171 11: 1171
12: 1171 13: 1171 14: 1171 15: 1171 16: 1171 17: 1171 18: 1171 19: 1171
20: 1171 bogomips: 107520
Flags-basic: avx avx2 ht lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx
Graphics:
Device-1: Intel Alder Lake-P GT2 [Iris Xe Graphics] vendor: Hewlett-Packard
driver: i915 v: kernel arch: Xe ports: active: DP-4,DP-5,eDP-1
empty: DP-1,DP-2,DP-6 bus-ID: 00:02.0 chip-ID: 8086:46a6
Device-2: NVIDIA GA104 [Geforce RTX 3070 Ti Laptop GPU]
vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: nouveau v: kernel arch: Ampere pcie:
speed: Unknown lanes: 63 ports: active: none empty: DP-3,HDMI-A-1
bus-ID: 01:00.0 chip-ID: 10de:24a0
Device-3: Quanta HP Wide Vision HD Camera driver: uvcvideo type: USB
rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s lanes: 1 bus-ID: 3-6:3 chip-ID: 0408:5477
Display: wayland server: Xwayland v: 24.1.8 compositor: kwin_wayland
driver: gpu: i915 d-rect: 6400x1440 display-ID: 0
Monitor-1: DP-4 pos: center model: Samsung S24E450 res: 1920x1080 hz: 60
dpi: 92 diag: 609mm (24")
Monitor-2: DP-5 pos: right model: Samsung S24E450 res: 1920x1080 hz: 60
dpi: 94 diag: 598mm (23.5")
Monitor-3: eDP-1 pos: primary,left model: BOE Display 0x09bf
res: 2560x1440 hz: 165 dpi: 170 diag: 438mm (17.3")
API: EGL v: 1.5 platforms: device: 1 drv: iris device: 2 drv: swrast gbm:
drv: iris surfaceless: drv: iris wayland: drv: iris x11: drv: iris
inactive: device-0
API: OpenGL v: 4.6 compat-v: 4.5 vendor: intel mesa v: 25.2.4 glx-v: 1.4
direct-render: yes renderer: Mesa Intel Iris Xe Graphics (ADL GT2)
device-ID: 8086:46a6 display-ID: :0.0
API: Vulkan v: 1.4.321 surfaces: N/A device: 0 type: integrated-gpu
driver: mesa intel device-ID: 8086:46a6 device: 1 type: cpu
driver: mesa llvmpipe device-ID: 10005:0000
Info: Tools: api: clinfo, eglinfo, glxinfo, vulkaninfo
de: kscreen-console,kscreen-doctor wl: wayland-info x11: xdriinfo,
xdpyinfo, xprop, xrandr
Audio:
Device-1: Intel Alder Lake PCH-P High Definition Audio
vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: sof-audio-pci-intel-tgl bus-ID: 00:1f.3
chip-ID: 8086:51c8
Device-2: NVIDIA GA104 High Definition Audio vendor: Hewlett-Packard
driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel pcie: speed: Unknown lanes: 63
bus-ID: 01:00.1 chip-ID: 10de:228b
API: ALSA v: k6.17.1-300.fc43.x86_64 status: kernel-api
Server-1: PipeWire v: 1.4.8 status: active with: 1: pipewire-pulse
status: active 2: wireplumber status: active 3: pipewire-alsa type: plugin
4: pw-jack type: plugin
Network:
Device-1: Intel Alder Lake-P PCH CNVi WiFi driver: iwlwifi v: kernel
bus-ID: 00:14.3 chip-ID: 8086:51f0
IF: wlp0s20f3 state: down mac: <filter>
Device-2: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8211/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet
vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: r8169 v: kernel pcie: speed: 2.5 GT/s
lanes: 1 port: 3000 bus-ID: 2f:00.0 chip-ID: 10ec:8168
IF: eno1 state: down mac: <filter>
Device-3: Realtek RTL8153 Gigabit Ethernet Adapter driver: r8152 type: USB
rev: 3.2 speed: 5 Gb/s lanes: 1 bus-ID: 2-1.4.4:9 chip-ID: 0bda:8153
IF: enp0s13f0u1u4u4 state: up speed: 1000 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter>
Bluetooth:
Device-1: Intel AX211 Bluetooth driver: btusb v: 0.8 type: USB rev: 2.0
speed: 12 Mb/s lanes: 1 bus-ID: 3-10:6 chip-ID: 8087:0033
Report: btmgmt ID: hci0 rfk-id: 0 state: up address: <filter> bt-v: 5.4
lmp-v: 13
Drives:
Local Storage: total: 2.4 TiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%)
ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 vendor: Micron model: MTFDKBA512TFH-1BC1AABHA
size: 476.94 GiB speed: 63.2 Gb/s lanes: 4 serial: <filter> temp: 28.9 C
ID-2: /dev/nvme1n1 vendor: Crucial model: CT2000P3PSSD8 size: 1.82 TiB
speed: 63.2 Gb/s lanes: 4 serial: <filter> temp: 28.9 C
ID-3: /dev/sda vendor: SanDisk model: USB 3.2Gen1 size: 115.75 GiB
type: USB rev: 3.2 spd: 5 Gb/s lanes: 1 serial: <filter>
Partition:
ID-1: / size: 3.05 GiB used: 380.5 MiB (12.2%) fs: overlay source: ERR-102
Swap:
ID-1: swap-1 type: zram size: 8 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) priority: 100
dev: /dev/zram0
Sensors:
System Temperatures: cpu: 35.0 C mobo: N/A
Fan Speeds (rpm): cpu: 0 fan-2: 0
Info:
Memory: total: 16 GiB note: est. available: 15.27 GiB used: 4.82 GiB (31.6%)
Processes: 456 Power: uptime: 28m wakeups: 1 Init: systemd v: 258
default: graphical
Packages: pm: rpm pkgs: N/A note: see --rpm Compilers: N/A Shell: Bash
v: 5.3.0 running-in: konsole inxi: 3.3.39
Switching to discrete default kernel froze in sddm. Rescue kernel let me in. Updating now.
After update switched back to hybrid graphics and default new kernel got past sddm but black screen instead of desktop. Rescue kernel couldn’t run any applications now and went into tty and that froze after a couple seconds.
I’m reinstalling F42.
I don’t mean to be overly harsh but this is a terrible release and a bad look for the distribution after years of stable releases. Compounded by the fact of Windows 10 EOL. Just my two cents from a long time user and advocate.
I just did the upgrade path to 43 after installing Nvidia drivers and after sitting at 100% for the better part of an hour with no feedback I restarted with control alt del. Can’t start application launcher due to some symbol issue.
Was this tested at all? I’m beginning to think not.
Identical issue here.
Some further information. Clicking on application launcher:
file:///usr/share/plasma/plasmoids/org.kde.plasma.kickoff/contents/ui/main.qml:21:1: Cannot load library /usr/lib64/qt6/qml/org/kde/plasma/private/kicker/libkickerplugin.so: /lib64/libKF6Runner.so.6: undefined symbol: _ZN14KWaylandExtras18xdgActivationTokenEP7QWindowRK7QString
The install got stuck after 100% because dnf5-upgrade-transaction.service failed. Unfotunately:
sudo journalctl -u dnf5-upgrade-transaction
-- No entries --
According to this user, sudo dnf downgrade kf6-krunner and rebooting will fix the application launcher issue for now.
Just came to post the same thing. Yes, fortunately this worked in the meantime. Thanks!
Testing is mostly up to the user community. I have several systems running Fedora, and install the 43 beta release on the oldest because it is reaching the age at which few similar systems still work. Upgrades on all my systems have gone smoothly.
Wake from sleep problems often involve power management which requires that vendor firmware and linux work together and often has issues when new kernels are released.
From: https://docs.kernel.org/admin-guide/thunderbolt.html:
Typically PCs come with a firmware connection manager for Thunderbolt 3 and early USB4 capable systems. Apple systems on the other hand use software connection manager and the later USB4 compliant devices follow the suit.
Have you tried HP Support?
The broken KDE application launcher issue (about which the testing question was asked) is a Fedora packaging issue, nothing to do with HP or firmware.
Oops, got confused about which thread I was responding to.
Still can’t boot, still can’t get to a tty. Farthest I can get is a screen with a single underscore when I remove the rhgb quiet and then press enter during boot so it actually prompts me for my luks password. Can’t ssh but it pings.