Hey everyone. I’m reaching out for help, as I’m struggling with a boot freeze issue on my old HP Pavilion Power notebook, after the latest Nvidia drivers update. As context, I’m a total beginner to Linux and Fedora, and due to my setup of GP107M [GeForce GTX 1050 Mobile] + external monitor, I’m re…

[image] Andrew M: Honestly, I don’t remember if I selected encryption during the installation. You would need to enter a password to unlock the drive on every system start. I guess it’s not encrypted :slight_smile: try that: echo 'machine koji.rpmfusion.org login rpmfusion password rpmfu…

[image] Andrew M: Honestly, I don’t remember if I selected encryption during the installation. You would remember having to type in your encryption password on every boot since installation :grinning_face: Out of the box, it’s not like Windows where Bitlocker will normally auto-unlock. (You …

Fair point, the drive is not encrypted :slight_smile: Thanks for the steps to downgrade the drivers. After running the 2nd set of commands, unfortunately I get the following output: sudo dnf downgrade ./*rpm Updating and loading repositories: Repositories loaded. Failed to resolve the transaction:…

sudo dnf remove kmod-nvidia\* or add --allow-erasing

Ok, that worked and the latest drivers were deleted. I will try rebooting in 6.19.9 Package Arch Version Repository Size Removing: kmod-nvidia-6.19.9-200.fc43.x86_64 x86_64 3:580.142-1.fc43…

you still have to do the sudo dnf downgrade step, otherwise the system will recreate the same kernel modules for the installed 580.142 driver.

That’s spot on! I hurried to reboot 6.19.9 without sudo dnf downgrade ./*rpm , and a message appeared during boot about kernel rebuilding, and then froze again. So, ran again sudo dnf remove kmod-nvidia\* in 6.17.1 with the output below: Package Arch Vers…

[image] Andrew M: To avoid same/similar issues in the future, should I stick to this nvidia driver version, and ignore future nvidia driver updates? you def. want to block updates for the nvidia driver 580.142. Probably open a nvidia bug report. Then retry when a newer 580.* driver will b…

These look like they could be the same problem. Hopefully so, since the person posting in the Nvidia forum managed to successfully apply a patch (the same one that the Cachy user used from the AUR). [image] Kernel NULL pointer dereference when using the 580.142 driver …

that means either disconnect the ext. display or switch to x11 or apply the patch. @andrew01 I have prepared an updated 580.142 akmod-nvidia package. Could you try that? Then I’ll send you a link in a private message. You would need to upgrade again to 580.142 and then install the patche…

@pg-tips thanks for looking into this topic on the nvidia and CachyOS forums. @anotheruser Sure, I’ll try that within today. If I need further support to install the patch I will reach out to you. EDIT: Confirmed, the patch worked: kmod-nvidia-6.19.9-200.fc43.x86_64-580.142-2.fc43.x86_64

Fedora 43 KDE 6.19.9-200/ Boot freeze after nvidia driver updates

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isaac0clarke (Isaac Clarke) March 31, 2026, 9:46pm 18

It seems that, for now, Fedora 43 won’t go beyond versions of 580, just updating it.

Still, you will eventually have to fix one version to prevent updates, if you don’t want to use Nouveau.

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