![]() I added repositories and installed drivers. The laptop contains a NVIDIA graphics card, and apparently there are a whooooole load of issues with using Fedora and GNOME display manager (Fedora’s default graphical system) on NVIDIA hardware. Then I spent several days trying ALL SORTS of fixes and tweaks and changes that I found on the internet. I started by upgrading the OS with a sudo dnf update, which took a while, as expected. Once again I had to run the installer in “basic graphics” mode, and so I was faced with lower-than-ideal screen resolution. For good measure, I decided to start with a fresh installation of the latest version the OS, Fedora 30. I rebooted the laptop: it froze immediately.īy this time I’d had enough for one day, so I shut the lid and forgot about it.įast-forward an ENTIRE YEAR and finally, I had the time and inclination to take another look at the problem. “Hah, problem solved!” I exclaimed, exterminating nomodeset from wherever it appeared. So after a LOT of searching and reading, I eventually discovered the /etc/default/grub file and the nomodeset boot parameter. ![]() I knew how to do simple command line things, but I didn’t really know how Linux was set up, or how to change boot parameters, or what on earth a GRUB was, or any of those other fun low-level system things. Of course, I wanted to take advantage of all 1080 of my available p’s, so set about looking for the issue.īear in mind that this was more or less my first experience with a Linux OS. However, after rebooting, it became clear that this had come with a catch: my screen was now stuck at a low resolution. I was attempting to use Fedora Media Writer to install the OS onto the laptop but every time I successfully booted to the installation GUI, the laptop would freeze completely and I’d have to turn it off via the power button.Įventually I succeeded by means of the installer’s “basic graphics mode”. I managed to nab myself a chunky old Dell Latitude and, much to the frustration of my friend in IT who had spent the afternoon setting up a fresh Windows installation for me, asked him to borrow a USB stick and then immediately wiped the hard drive so that I could install Fedora. I had been toying with the idea of getting a spare laptop anyway in order to play around with a Linux-based operating system, so this was the perfect opportunity. Sometime last year my company decided to upgrade its IT assets, and consequently sold off a bunch of old laptops to interested employees. This is a play-by-play of my debugging process, and ultimately the solution turned out to be rather simple. TL DR: I had mega issues with getting NVIDIA graphics to work on Fedora. ![]()
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