EDIT: Sorry this comment is misleading. Issue still persists. Keep an eye on new comments
Thank you Mike! It looks like the issue is solved. Nouveau is the culprit !!! (I think)
The fedora installation asked me if I wanted proprietary drivers, I chose yes. Turns out, it only installed the rpmfusion repo, not the driver itself.
Apart from the how-to you linked, which was very helpful, there are a couple of additions I would like to make.
- If your system’s secure boot is enabled (all modern systems have), then do the secure boot step first.
- If, by any chance, you missed the order. Follow these steps
sudo dnf remove kmod-nvidia-$(uname -r)sudo akmods --force
- or alternatively
sudo akmods --rebuild --force
(source: Nvidia driver not loading)
Even though the fedora experience wasn’t top notch, I wonder what made me stick.
Anyway, here are the answers to your questions, Mike. Thanks for being kind.
- Yes, I’m dual booting from same physical drive. I guess its driver issue after all.
- Really, why was I not using official drivers!!! Why!!!
- Here is the output for
cat /proc/cmdline:
BOOT_IMAGE=(hd0,gpt8)/vmlinuz-6.9.11-200.fc40.x86_64 root=UUID=34aa273b-f6e1-4bf9-94df-a430b11c36fc ro rootflags=subvol=root rhgb quiet rd.driver.blacklist=nouveau modprobe.blacklist=nouveau
nouveau, BLACKLISTED!!!!!!!
but big L for FLOSS