Fedora 44 Graphical Boot Help

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1

A fresh Fedora 44 installation consistently fails to reach the graphical login screen on my hardware. The operating system itself boots successfully and remains accessible over SSH. Booting to multi-user.target first and later switching to graphical.target reliably starts GNOME every time. A normal/graphical boot always starts to a black screen and nothing I have tried will restore a graphical session from this state.

The Fedora Live installer also required nomodeset before installation.

I’m unsure if this is a known issue. Black screen issues with nvidia seem to be common and I’ve exhausted my google-fu trying to resolve this.

Hardware

  • MSI PRO B550M-VC WiFi

  • AMD Ryzen 9 5900XT

  • NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080

  • BIOS E7C95AMS.HF0

Software

  • Fedora 44

  • NVIDIA driver 610.43.03 (RPM Fusion)

Reproduction

  1. Fresh install Fedora 44.

  2. Boot normally.

  3. Screen remains black before GDM.

  4. SSH remains functional.

Workaround

Boot with:

systemd.unit=multi-user.target

Then run:

sudo systemctl isolate graphical.target

The graphical desktop starts successfully.

More Info

  • Fedora Live installer required nomodeset.

  • NVIDIA logs report flip event timeouts.

  • Kernel and userspace remain operational after the display failure.

  • Latest motherboard BIOS installed.

  • PCIe generation, Above 4G, and Resizable BAR changes did not resolve the issue.

2

try booting with kernel argument plymouth.use-simpledrm=1

You can also opt removing rhgb from the kernel command line.

3

You say you have the nvidia driver but we need more info.
Please post (as preformatted text with the </> button) the output of inxi -ezxx. It may be necessary to install inxi.

Also show us the output of dnf list --installed \*nvidia\*
and modinfo -l nvidia && modinfo -F version nvidia
as well as sudo dmesg | grep -iE "nvidia|nouveau"

4

I think this is the 5th MSI+Nvidia “No output” posts I’ve seen this week. I know MSI are relatively common, so maybe I’m seeing a connection where it’s inevitable due to the number of installations out there.

5

I forgot to include in my initial report that I had tried other kernel command line options. I’ve tried so many things I’ve lost track. None of these worked:

  • Removing rhgb quiet
  • Setting plymouth.enable=0 in addition to the above
  • Adding WaylandEnable=false under [daemon] in /etc/gdm/custom.conf
  • Added a delay to gdm startup with ExecStartPre=/usr/bin/sleep 60

I also neglected to mention I run multiple GPUs normally. I removed everything but a single 3080 in the primary slot and the behaviour is the same. I also tried with HDMI and DisplayPort outputs.

The only thing I can do to reliably get a desktop is boot with systemd.unit=multi-user.target, log in at the terminal probmpt, then run sudo systemctl isolate graphical.target.

Command outputs:

❯ inxi -ezxx
System:
  Kernel: 7.1.4-204.fc44.x86_64 arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 16.1.1
  Desktop: GNOME v: 50.3 tk: GTK v: 3.24.52 wm: gnome-shell dm: GDM
    Distro: Fedora Linux 44 (Workstation Edition)
Machine:
  Type: Desktop Mobo: Micro-Star model: PRO B550M-VC WIFI (MS-7C95) v: 3.0
    serial: <superuser required> Firmware: UEFI vendor: American Megatrends LLC.
    v: H.F0 date: 04/17/2026
CPU:
  Info: 16-core model: AMD Ryzen 9 5900XT bits: 64 type: MT MCP arch: Zen 3+
    rev: 2 cache: L1: 1024 KiB L2: 8 MiB L3: 64 MiB
  Speed (MHz): avg: 3468 min/max: 570/4982 boost: enabled cores: 1: 3468
    2: 3468 3: 3468 4: 3468 5: 3468 6: 3468 7: 3468 8: 3468 9: 3468 10: 3468
    11: 3468 12: 3468 13: 3468 14: 3468 15: 3468 16: 3468 17: 3468 18: 3468
    19: 3468 20: 3468 21: 3468 22: 3468 23: 3468 24: 3468 25: 3468 26: 3468
    27: 3468 28: 3468 29: 3468 30: 3468 31: 3468 32: 3468 bogomips: 211185
  Flags-basic: avx avx2 ht lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 sse4a
    ssse3 svm
Graphics:
  Device-1: NVIDIA TU116 [GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER] vendor: ZOTAC driver: nvidia
    v: 610.43.03 arch: Turing pcie: speed: 2.5 GT/s lanes: 1 ports: active: none
    empty: DP-1, DP-2, DP-3, HDMI-A-1 bus-ID: 06:00.0 chip-ID: 10de:21c4
  Device-2: NVIDIA GA106 [GeForce RTX 3060 Lite Hash Rate]
    vendor: Micro-Star MSI driver: nvidia v: 610.43.03 arch: Ampere pcie:
    speed: 2.5 GT/s lanes: 1 ports: active: none empty: DP-4, DP-5, DP-6,
    HDMI-A-2 bus-ID: 08:00.0 chip-ID: 10de:2504
  Device-3: NVIDIA GA106 [GeForce RTX 3060] vendor: EVGA driver: nvidia
    v: 610.43.03 arch: Ampere pcie: speed: 2.5 GT/s lanes: 1 ports: active: none
    empty: DP-7, DP-8, DP-9, HDMI-A-3 bus-ID: 09:00.0 chip-ID: 10de:2503
  Device-4: NVIDIA GA102 [GeForce RTX 3080] vendor: EVGA driver: nvidia
    v: 610.43.03 arch: Ampere pcie: speed: 5 GT/s lanes: 16 ports: active: DP-12
    empty: DP-10,DP-11,HDMI-A-4 bus-ID: 2b:00.0 chip-ID: 10de:2206
  Device-5: Microsoft LifeCam Studio
    driver: hid-generic,snd-usb-audio,usbhid,uvcvideo type: USB rev: 2.0
    speed: 480 Mb/s lanes: 1 bus-ID: 5-1:2 chip-ID: 045e:0772
  Display: wayland server: Xwayland v: 24.1.13 compositor: gnome-shell
    driver: gpu: nv_platform,nvidia,nvidia-nvswitch display-ID: 0
  Monitor-1: DP-12 model: Samsung LC34G55T res: 3440x1440 dpi: 109
    diag: 869mm (34.2")
  API: OpenGL v: 4.6.0 vendor: nvidia v: 610.43.03 glx-v: 1.4
    direct-render: yes renderer: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080/PCIe/SSE2
    display-ID: :0.0
  API: EGL Message: EGL data requires eglinfo. Check --recommends.
  Info: Tools: api: glxinfo gpu: nvidia-settings,nvidia-smi x11: xdriinfo,
    xdpyinfo, xprop, xrandr
Audio:
  Device-1: NVIDIA TU116 High Definition Audio vendor: ZOTAC
    driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel pcie: speed: 2.5 GT/s lanes: 1
    bus-ID: 06:00.1 chip-ID: 10de:1aeb
  Device-2: NVIDIA GA106 High Definition Audio vendor: Micro-Star MSI
    driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel pcie: speed: 2.5 GT/s lanes: 1
    bus-ID: 08:00.1 chip-ID: 10de:228e
  Device-3: NVIDIA GA106 High Definition Audio vendor: EVGA
    driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel pcie: speed: 2.5 GT/s lanes: 1
    bus-ID: 09:00.1 chip-ID: 10de:228e
  Device-4: NVIDIA GA102 High Definition Audio vendor: EVGA
    driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel pcie: speed: 16 GT/s lanes: 16
    bus-ID: 2b:00.1 chip-ID: 10de:1aef
  Device-5: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Starship/Matisse HD Audio
    vendor: Micro-Star MSI driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel pcie: speed: 16 GT/s
    lanes: 16 bus-ID: 2d:00.4 chip-ID: 1022:1487
  Device-6: Microsoft LifeCam Studio
    driver: hid-generic,snd-usb-audio,usbhid,uvcvideo type: USB rev: 2.0
    speed: 480 Mb/s lanes: 1 bus-ID: 5-1:2 chip-ID: 045e:0772
  API: ALSA v: k7.1.4-204.fc44.x86_64 status: kernel-api
  Server-1: PipeWire v: 1.6.8 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: MEDIATEK MT7922 802.11ax PCI Express Wireless Network Adapter
    driver: mt7921e v: kernel pcie: speed: 5 GT/s lanes: 1 bus-ID: 29:00.0
    chip-ID: 14c3:0616
  IF: wlo1 state: down mac: <filter>
  Device-2: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8211/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet
    vendor: Micro-Star MSI driver: r8169 v: kernel pcie: speed: 2.5 GT/s
    lanes: 1 port: e000 bus-ID: 2a:00.0 chip-ID: 10ec:8168
  IF: enp42s0 state: up speed: 1000 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter>
Bluetooth:
  Device-1: MediaTek Wireless_Device driver: btusb v: 0.8 type: USB rev: 2.1
    speed: 480 Mb/s lanes: 1 bus-ID: 1-9:5 chip-ID: 0e8d:0616
  Report: btmgmt ID: hci0 rfk-id: 0 state: up address: <filter> bt-v: 5.3
    lmp-v: 12
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 16.37 TiB used: 2.58 TiB (15.8%)
  ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 vendor: Silicon Power model: SPCC M.2 PCIe SSD
    size: 1.82 TiB speed: 63.2 Gb/s lanes: 4 serial: <filter> temp: 46.9 C
  ID-2: /dev/sda vendor: Western Digital model: WD161KFGX-68AFPN0
    size: 14.55 TiB speed: 6.0 Gb/s serial: <filter>
Partition:
  ID-1: / size: 1.46 TiB used: 179.52 GiB (12.0%) fs: btrfs
    dev: /dev/nvme0n1p3
  ID-2: /boot size: 1.9 GiB used: 812.7 MiB (41.8%) fs: ext4
    dev: /dev/nvme0n1p2
  ID-3: /boot/efi size: 598.8 MiB used: 20 MiB (3.3%) fs: vfat
    dev: /dev/nvme0n1p1
  ID-4: /home size: 1.46 TiB used: 179.52 GiB (12.0%) 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: 45.0 C mobo: 45.0 C
  Fan Speeds (rpm): cpu: 664 mobo: 730
  Power: 12v: 12.14 5v: 4.87 3.3v: 3.33 vbat: 1.83
Info:
  Memory: total: 32 GiB available: 31.25 GiB used: 9.72 GiB (31.1%)
  Processes: 660 Power: uptime: 59m wakeups: 0 Init: systemd v: 259
    default: graphical
  Packages: pm: rpm pkgs: N/A note: see --rpm pm: flatpak pkgs: 7 Compilers:
    gcc: 16.1.1 Shell: Bash v: 5.3.9 running-in: ptyxis-agent inxi: 3.3.41


❯ dnf list --installed \*nvidia\*
Installed packages (available for reinstall, available for upgrade)
akmod-nvidia.x86_64                      3:610.43.03-1.fc44 rpmfusion-nonfree-nvidia-driver
kmod-nvidia-7.1.4-200.fc44.x86_64.x86_64 3:610.43.03-1.fc44 @commandline
kmod-nvidia-7.1.4-202.fc44.x86_64.x86_64 3:610.43.03-1.fc44 @commandline
kmod-nvidia-7.1.4-204.fc44.x86_64.x86_64 3:610.43.03-1.fc44 @commandline
nvidia-gpu-firmware.noarch               20260622-1.fc44    updates
nvidia-modprobe.x86_64                   3:610.43.03-1.fc44 rpmfusion-nonfree-nvidia-driver
nvidia-persistenced.x86_64               3:610.43.03-2.fc44 rpmfusion-nonfree-nvidia-driver
nvidia-settings.x86_64                   3:610.43.03-1.fc44 rpmfusion-nonfree-nvidia-driver
xorg-x11-drv-nvidia.x86_64               3:610.43.03-1.fc44 rpmfusion-nonfree-nvidia-driver
xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-cuda.x86_64          3:610.43.03-1.fc44 rpmfusion-nonfree-nvidia-driver
xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-cuda-libs.x86_64     3:610.43.03-1.fc44 rpmfusion-nonfree-nvidia-driver
xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-kmodsrc.x86_64       3:610.43.03-1.fc44 rpmfusion-nonfree-nvidia-driver
xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-libs.x86_64          3:610.43.03-1.fc44 rpmfusion-nonfree-nvidia-driver
xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-power.x86_64         3:610.43.03-1.fc44 rpmfusion-nonfree-nvidia-driver

❯ modinfo -l nvidia && modinfo -F version nvidia
Dual MIT/GPL
610.43.03

❯ sudo dmesg | grep -iE "nvidia|nouveau"
Please look at the camera
[    0.000000] Command line: BOOT_IMAGE=(hd1,gpt2)/vmlinuz-7.1.4-204.fc44.x86_64 root=UUID=6d7608ca-437f-45e9-bb57-1a3a73433814 ro rootflags=subvol=root rhgb quiet rd.driver.blacklist=nouveau,nova_core modprobe.blacklist=nouveau,nova_core systemd.unit=multi-user.target
[    0.040494] Kernel command line: BOOT_IMAGE=(hd1,gpt2)/vmlinuz-7.1.4-204.fc44.x86_64 root=UUID=6d7608ca-437f-45e9-bb57-1a3a73433814 ro rootflags=subvol=root rhgb quiet rd.driver.blacklist=nouveau,nova_core modprobe.blacklist=nouveau,nova_core systemd.unit=multi-user.target
[    8.310090] nvidia-gpu 0000:06:00.3: enabling device (0000 -> 0002)
[    8.576795] input: HDA NVidia HDMI/DP,pcm=3 as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:03.1/0000:2b:00.1/sound/card3/input17
[    8.576865] input: HDA NVidia HDMI/DP,pcm=7 as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:03.1/0000:2b:00.1/sound/card3/input18
[    8.576939] input: HDA NVidia HDMI/DP,pcm=8 as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:03.1/0000:2b:00.1/sound/card3/input19
[    8.576944] input: HDA NVidia HDMI/DP,pcm=3 as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:01.2/0000:02:00.2/0000:03:04.0/0000:04:00.0/0000:05:01.0/0000:06:00.1/sound/card0/input8
[    8.577019] input: HDA NVidia HDMI/DP,pcm=9 as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:03.1/0000:2b:00.1/sound/card3/input20
[    8.577069] input: HDA NVidia HDMI/DP,pcm=3 as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:01.2/0000:02:00.2/0000:03:04.0/0000:04:00.0/0000:05:05.0/0000:08:00.1/sound/card1/input25
[    8.577107] input: HDA NVidia HDMI/DP,pcm=7 as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:01.2/0000:02:00.2/0000:03:04.0/0000:04:00.0/0000:05:01.0/0000:06:00.1/sound/card0/input9
[    8.577209] input: HDA NVidia HDMI/DP,pcm=7 as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:01.2/0000:02:00.2/0000:03:04.0/0000:04:00.0/0000:05:05.0/0000:08:00.1/sound/card1/input26
[    8.577281] input: HDA NVidia HDMI/DP,pcm=8 as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:01.2/0000:02:00.2/0000:03:04.0/0000:04:00.0/0000:05:01.0/0000:06:00.1/sound/card0/input10
[    8.577328] input: HDA NVidia HDMI/DP,pcm=8 as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:01.2/0000:02:00.2/0000:03:04.0/0000:04:00.0/0000:05:05.0/0000:08:00.1/sound/card1/input27
[    8.577398] input: HDA NVidia HDMI/DP,pcm=3 as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:01.2/0000:02:00.2/0000:03:04.0/0000:04:00.0/0000:05:07.0/0000:09:00.1/sound/card2/input21
[    8.577402] input: HDA NVidia HDMI/DP,pcm=9 as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:01.2/0000:02:00.2/0000:03:04.0/0000:04:00.0/0000:05:01.0/0000:06:00.1/sound/card0/input11
[    8.577448] input: HDA NVidia HDMI/DP,pcm=7 as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:01.2/0000:02:00.2/0000:03:04.0/0000:04:00.0/0000:05:07.0/0000:09:00.1/sound/card2/input22
[    8.577512] input: HDA NVidia HDMI/DP,pcm=9 as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:01.2/0000:02:00.2/0000:03:04.0/0000:04:00.0/0000:05:05.0/0000:08:00.1/sound/card1/input28
[    8.577588] input: HDA NVidia HDMI/DP,pcm=8 as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:01.2/0000:02:00.2/0000:03:04.0/0000:04:00.0/0000:05:07.0/0000:09:00.1/sound/card2/input23
[    8.577636] input: HDA NVidia HDMI/DP,pcm=9 as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:01.2/0000:02:00.2/0000:03:04.0/0000:04:00.0/0000:05:07.0/0000:09:00.1/sound/card2/input24
[    8.708288] nvidia-nvlink: Nvlink Core is being initialized, major device number 234
[    8.711814] nvidia 0000:06:00.0: vgaarb: VGA decodes changed: olddecodes=io+mem,decodes=none:owns=none
[    8.757546] nvidia 0000:08:00.0: vgaarb: VGA decodes changed: olddecodes=io+mem,decodes=none:owns=none
[    8.808502] nvidia 0000:09:00.0: vgaarb: VGA decodes changed: olddecodes=io+mem,decodes=none:owns=none
[    8.855546] nvidia 0000:2b:00.0: vgaarb: VGA decodes changed: olddecodes=io+mem,decodes=none:owns=none
[    8.898395] NVRM: loading NVIDIA UNIX Open Kernel Module for x86_64  610.43.03  Release Build  (dvs-builder@U22-I3-AD05-33-5)  Tue Jun 30 23:47:20 UTC 2026
[    8.956267] nvidia-modeset: Loading NVIDIA UNIX Open Kernel Mode Setting Driver for x86_64  610.43.03  Release Build  (dvs-builder@U22-I3-AD05-33-5)  Tue Jun 30 23:32:22 UTC 2026
[    8.963663] [drm] [nvidia-drm] [GPU ID 0x00000600] Loading driver
[    9.474354] nvidia-gpu 0000:06:00.3: i2c timeout error e0000000
[   16.001505] [drm] Initialized nvidia-drm 0.0.0 for 0000:06:00.0 on minor 1
[   16.002463] nvidia 0000:06:00.0: [drm] Cannot find any crtc or sizes
[   16.002505] [drm] [nvidia-drm] [GPU ID 0x00000800] Loading driver
[   16.074177] [drm] Initialized nvidia-drm 0.0.0 for 0000:08:00.0 on minor 2
[   16.075455] nvidia 0000:08:00.0: [drm] Cannot find any crtc or sizes
[   16.075495] [drm] [nvidia-drm] [GPU ID 0x00000900] Loading driver
[   16.237936] [drm] Initialized nvidia-drm 0.0.0 for 0000:09:00.0 on minor 3
[   16.239185] nvidia 0000:09:00.0: [drm] Cannot find any crtc or sizes
[   16.239234] [drm] [nvidia-drm] [GPU ID 0x00002b00] Loading driver
[   16.406384] [drm] Initialized nvidia-drm 0.0.0 for 0000:2b:00.0 on minor 4
[   16.428812] nvidia 0000:2b:00.0: vgaarb: deactivate vga console
[   16.478292] fbcon: nvidia-drmdrmfb (fb0) is primary device
[   17.654728] nvidia 0000:2b:00.0: [drm] fb0: nvidia-drmdrmfb frame buffer device
6

You say you’ve removed everything barring one of the nv cards, yet these logs show there are 4 still installed, devices:

[    8.711814] nvidia 0000:06:00.0: vgaarb: VGA decodes changed: olddecodes=io+mem,decodes=none:owns=none
[    8.757546] nvidia 0000:08:00.0: vgaarb: VGA decodes changed: olddecodes=io+mem,decodes=none:owns=none
[    8.808502] nvidia 0000:09:00.0: vgaarb: VGA decodes changed: olddecodes=io+mem,decodes=none:owns=none
[    8.855546] nvidia 0000:2b:00.0: vgaarb: VGA decodes changed: olddecodes=io+mem,decodes=none:owns=none
7

Yeah, I decided I can live with the workaround of booting to text mode first, as otherwise everything works fine. Rendering, local AI models, etc all are ok. I put it all back together so I could continue to work.

8

Fair enough - I figured that would be the case, and I can see that the 3080 is the 2b:00 device and it’s the one which indicates it can see a display attached.

This is a race condition I think - the fact that you can start in a text mode and initiate the GUI from text mode after boot has completed, indicates that the device is ok, the drivers are installed ok and working. I guess if GDM starts up before the 16 seconds it takes to initialise all the devices you’ll get no output…

I see you’ve already slapped a 60 second pause on GDM startup - is there anything weird in a systemd-analyze blame?

9

Nothing unusual really. I do have a TON of output from other commands from debugging I did via ssh in the “black screen” state but I didn’t want to flood my initial report. If any of these would be helpful I can post, or tarball up all the text file outputs I made. These were all run while I was using SSH to log in when the screen was black:

systemd-analyze time
systemd-analyze critical-chain graphical.target
systemctl status gdm
systemctl status display-manager
systemctl is-active gdm
systemctl status graphical.target
systemctl --failed
systemctl list-dependencies graphical.target
loginctl list-sessions
ps -ef | grep -Ei 'gdm|gnome-shell|mutter|Xorg|Xwayland|wayland|plymouth'
journalctl -b -u gdm
journalctl -b --since "10 minutes ago"
journalctl -b -k
dmesg -T
10

I wouldn’t mind seeing the entire journalctl output up to the point where the 3080 fully initialised with that message I quote above - that takes around 17 seconds or so in the example output you quoted, which seems like quite a long time to be honest but I don’t have an Nv card to compare against.

Might be a bit too long to post directly but fpaste will upload it to a pastebin for you.

I’m interested in seeing what fully fired up prior to that and found no output devices ready.

11

Hope this helps:
https://paste.centos.org/view/4683cb2c

12

Does booting with the parameter nvidia-drm.modeset=1 help at all?

13

also, my initial post was after I used the text boot workaround. I’m not sure when nvidia is initialised, but if it’s after I initiated the switch to graphical mode that might account for the 17 seconds: the time it took me to log in to the terminal and start up graphical mode.

14

Out of interest, have you tried connecting the display to the 1st card ( e.g dp-1) .

Maybe adding the nvidia driver to the initramfs could help here.
omit the nouveau driver and add the nvidia drivers instead.

see Making sure you're not a bot!

15

Same site says

The parameter nvidia-drm.modeset=1 was previously set and should be cleared from current installations. This parameter produces a bad interaction with a Fedora Kernel specific patch to deal with early boot display with simpledrm. To avoid any issue, don’t use nvidia-drm.modeset=1 parameter from cmdline.

I have no idea if that would help or not.

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nvidia-drm.modeset=1 did not change anything, unfortunately. While I was in the display blackhole state I tried somethine new. I wanted to see if I could SSH in, take down graphical mode, unload, then reload the nvidia drivers. I couldn’t quite recall how modprobe worked and ended up locked up in terminal 1.

❯ sudo systemctl isolate multi-user.target

❯ sudo modprobe -r nvidia
modprobe: FATAL: Module nvidia is in use.

> sudo modprobe -r nvidia_drm
^C

SSH’d in again in a new terminal and captured kernel messages in this fpaste if it helps: https://paste.centos.org/view/bb632a9a

17

I could try that. I’d have to rearrange things as the only card with accessible ports right now is the card in the primary x16 slot (device-4/card4, the 3080).

18

I finally got it working. I should have tried one thing at a time so I’m not sure which change resulted in success. I uninstalled the rpmfusion packages and installed the drivers from the official nvidia repo. I also swapped the display port cable for HDMI. I did try swapping back to the DisplayPort for one boot and black-screened again. Switched back to HDMI and boot was clean. Rebooted two more times to make sure.

I forget if this was already somewhere in my diagnostics, but the monitor is a Samsung 34" G5 LC34G55TWWNXZA

I really should have tried one thing at a time, but at least now I have a system I can boot without issues. If there is anything I can provide that would assist further please let me know.

Edited to add: Boot is also successful using DisplayPort if I turn off FreeSync and force 60hz refresh rate in the monitor menu. I also tried with 100hz and black-screened.

19

Welcome back. C’est bon.

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ls -l /boot/initramfs-7*

sudo lsinitrd |& grep -E 'nvidia|nouveau' |grep -v firmware