Big F12 disaster after nvidia driver install

[GODhack]

I enabled rpm-fusion installed nvidia drivers from it and minor kernel update and this ended up with no GUI at all. To make things worse even when I tried old kernel just many colorful lines after boot and system crashed so badly that even no command line was available.

I use KDE edition 64 bit and GF9800GTX card.

Plz help me fix this.

[newiLuvatar]

try editing /etc/X11/xorg.conf, specifically the line where it says

Driver      "nvidia"

and change it to

Driver      "nouveau"

or

Driver      "vesa"

this should disable the nvidia driver and use the open source driver...
to get into text mode you can append a 3 to the boot loader line while in grub (press 'e' in grub, then 'e' again, add 3 to the line, then press 'b' to boot, if I'm not mistaken).

[GODhack]

Thanks, but that I know. I want to know how I can get nvidia driver working.

[newiLuvatar]

then go to text mode, choose nvidia in xorg.conf, type startx and see if there are any error messages. or check /var/log/Xorg.0.log

[davidgurvich]

I don't recall the exact sequence of commands but selinux needs to be modified before the binary nvidia driver is used on F12. The binary driver accesses parts of the system protected by selinux.

[ozjd]

For the full procedure have a look at the nvidia thread in the How to section, link in my signature.

[GODhack]

Thanks for info.

startix for sure fails because X already running, but hanged. I was kinda lazy and do not tired to kill it.

I tried vesa, but now it fails too in visually same way.

I will try to read nvidia topic more carefully and I will try something.

---------- Post added at 08:41 AM CST ---------- Previous post was at 04:34 AM CST ----------

Fixed. I simply missed that part with selinux and grub menu and just istalled drivers before.