Relatively new to the LInux world, so bear with me here: I managed to get Fedora 39 installed on my laptop just fine with Nvidia drives, so I decided to make the jump to Linux on my primary desktop system. I have an Nvidia RTX 3070 Ti on that box, and have installed earlier versions just fine when tinkering. I’ve tried the following with versions 38, 39, and 40 with the same results: Install Fedora and I get a properly working display, but after doing the initial update of all the packages and rebooting, I get to the logon screen, but the screen goes blank afterwards with no signal messages on my monitor. Can’t go any further. Installing version 37 works just fine, however, and I’m able to get to a point where I can use the RPM Fusion repositories to install the Nvidia drivers and proceed from there. Newer versions just don’t seem to work properly with this card (I’m writing this from my Windows partition on the same box, which is working just fine, so it doesn’t seem to be a hardware issue). Any ideas or tips to get around this?
Just trying to get specifics here :
Just to confirm, you are installing the Hardware using RPMFusion repository only correct?
Do you have SecureBoot enabled on your machine?
You are Dual Booting Fedora with Windows on the same HDD/SSD ?
I don’t even get to a point where I’ve added any repositories before the display goes blank. I install the OS, do a dnf update, reboot, login, and blank screen.
Tried with SecureBoot enabled and disabled, reinstalling each way. Same results.
Windows is on a separate M2 drive entirely.
You have said that you installed f37 and were able to get the system to work properly.
Did you use dnf to update they system to the latest f37 packages, install the nvidia drivers then perform a system-upgrade to f38, repeat the dnf upgrade, then do another system-upgrade to f39, then similarly upgrade to 40?
Or are you doing a new clean install of f40.
Note that the rpmfusion repos provide the updated nvidia drivers for each fedora release.
If you installed the nvidia driver directly from nvidia upgrades done this way may not work properly, but in almost 100% of the cases when installing the drivers from rpmfusion it just works as expected.
If doing a new clean install as indicated in your last post you may need to install using the basic graphics mode for newer nvidia GPUs then boot and perform the install of the nvidia drivers. Performing the system update prior to installing the nvidia drivers may be the issue since that changes the boot process.