I have an old PC with Legacy Nvidia card (GeForce GT 710). I fresh installed Fedora 42 and it used the Noveau driver and it worked fine. I could suspend and resume without issues.
When I installed Nvidia 390xx drivers from RPMFusion repo, it fails and shows an orange green screen.
When I disable the Nvidia drivers, it doesn’t even fall back to Noveau drivers and shows a similar garbled screen.
Now I’m stuck with a PC that doesn’t boot or show a virtual Terminals on ctrl-alt-f1
Hopefully you only installed that bad driver for only one kernel (i.e. you didn’t use --regenerate-all). If so, then the other kernels should be fine. You just need to get to the boot menu to select one of the uncorrupted kernels.
The problem is my root is also locked so I can’t enter rescue mode. I am trying to get back in using Noveau driver but even that’s showing garbled screen on both kernel entries. I don’t think there’s a way out and I’ll just reinstall it the 3rd time.
There’s this thread from last year which tells me that it’s futile to use Nvidia drivers on this legacy card.
Did you remove rd.driver.blacklist=nouveau and modprobe.blacklist=nouveau from the boot menu? If not, try rebooting, edit the GRUB menu (by pressing e on the selected boot entry), and delete these boot parameters, then boot.
If you manage to boot and log in, then you would need to permanently remove these parameters via grubby.
I tried all of these options. None of them worked and I couldn’t log in to a working terminal. The last option was to reinstall using LiveUSB. Since I had nothing to lose, I checked out Arch Linux and it installed everything correctly on my PC.
I’m sorry to report that I’ve moved on to Arch Linux now and it’s a great experience so far.
From what NVIDIA says, the recommended driver for a GT710 GPU (Kepler architecture) is the 470 driver, not the 390. RPM Fusion says that the 470 driver is suitable for Kepler architecture GPUs, not the 390.
Did you try the 470 driver? Your original post says that you tried the 390 driver.
