Talk: Third-party modules (e.g. Nvidia) are not rebuilt during system upgrade

[kparal (Kamil Páral)]

Please see the Common Issue for solution/workarounds:

Third-party modules (e.g. Nvidia) are not rebuilt during system upgrade

Problem If you use a third-party kernel module (the most common is the Nvidia closed driver, but this might also apply to some wireless card drivers, VirtualBox, etc), it won’t be rebuilt during a system upgrade to a newer Fedora version. That means your kernel module (and the affected hardware) might not work directly after the system upgrade. In case of Nvidia, that might mean using a slow fallback graphical driver, or even failing to boot to a graphical environment at all. Note: This proble…