VMware Fedora 41 black screen after dnf upgrade

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I confirm that the last mesa update (24.3.4-3) solved the issue in my case also.

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I can confirm as well that the Mesa 24.3.4-3 update solved my issue on both F41 and rawhide.

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hmm, didnā€™t work for me. I tried downgrading mesa to 24.2.4-1 and upgrading to 24.4.4-3 and no joy on either.

Iā€™m using vmware using the vmsvga option for graphics.

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There is one issue still with F41/Mesa/Wayland/GNOME that occurs when 3D acceleration is enabled for a VMware VM and the latest Mesa packages (24.3.4-3) are installed. The gdm greeter displays in a what appears to be a dimmed window. You can see the GDM greeterā€™s menu icons in the uppre right corner (but you canā€™t click on them and get any action), the Fedora logo appears dim, and no username prompt is visible.

Resizing the virtual machineā€™s window (such as by enabling then disabling full screen mode for the VM) will work around this issue. This is evidently a regression - there seems to be a lot of work going on in Mesa/GNOME/Wayland/mutter lately that is causing some regression in behavior on some environments.