Nouveau corrupted framebuffer on transition between graphical GUIs

[computersavvy (Jeff V)]

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(This also happens on a GTX 1080Ti with proprietary drivers - same OS, different machine)

This one is usually fixed by following the instructions in the common issues

Upgrading to Fedora 44 breaks Nvidia driver for older GPUs (GeForce 10xx and older)

Problem After upgrading to Fedora 44, the Nvidia driver fails to load on certain cards. An error is displayed during boot: NVIDIA kernel module missing. Falling back to nouveau This issue affects GPUs that were supported by the “current” driver as of Fedora 43, including Maxwell-based models such as GTX 960 and Pascal-based models such as GTX 1060. List of impacted GPUs Cause This issue is triggered by a combination of two factors: Nvidia dropped support for the affected GPUs in driver v…