Hello, I’m fairly new to the GNU/Linux thing. I installed Fedora recently and worked fine for some time. After a while, this incident happened. As usual, it normally lets me select Fedora or Windows (I have a SSD with Windows) through the bootloader (I think that’s its name) then it shows the motherboard manufacturer logo (Gigabyte) and when it should ask me the encryption password (my Fedora hard drive is encrypted since I installed it), the screen goes black and I can’t do anything.
For some reason, my computer also can’t boot other Linux distros after this incident, I tried with Manjaro and Ubuntu also. I only could boot Ubuntu but in safe graphics mode. After noticing that, I found the nomodeset in internet forums and I tried it in Fedora. I opened the GRUB editor and deleted the parameter “quiet” and inserted “nomodeset”, it worked but the resolution was low and the interface was unpleasant compared to the Fedora I have used to work with.
My GPU is an AMD RX 550 2 GB on a PC with an Intel i5 8400 with 24 GB RAM DDR4.
Thanks in advance.
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Can you verify which version of Fedora? As of Fedora 36, the legacy frame buffer driver was deprecated and replaced, which should still work, but it is a significant change under the hood. If you’re able to boot with kms, you’ll likely have a better experience.
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It’s Fedora 35 downloaded through Fedora Media Writer, I also have run “sudo dnf upgrade”. With “kms”, do you mean “nomodeset”? I’m a newbie.
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