Bug 1276961

Summary:	Proprietary Nvidia drivers do not support ABI version in Fedora 23's xorg-X11-server-Xorg package
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Anthony Clark <anthonyclarka2>
Component:	xorg-x11-drivers	Assignee:	X/OpenGL Maintenance List <xgl-maint>
Status:	CLOSED CANTFIX	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version:	23	CC:	hdegoede, xgl-maint
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Description Anthony Clark 2015-11-01 19:11:00 UTC

Description of problem:

After upgrading from Fedora 22 to 23 using fedup.

gdm would flicker rapidly between text Linux console and X for about 5 minutes. After that had stopped, attempting "startx" showed an error in the Nvidia driver regarding the ABI version of the xorg-server in Fedora 23. Updating the nvidia driver to the latest version (358.09 at this time) did not help. Copying /usr/bin/startx to /root/ then editing it to add the "-ignoreABI" parameter allowed the server to start but it quickly crashed back to the console.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

Fedora 22 with manually installed NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-358.09.run package downloaded from nvidia site.

How reproducible:

With the nvidia drivers from the nvidia website manually installed on Fedora 22, upgrade to Fedora 23.

Actual results:

Xorg cannot start.

Expected results:

Xorg should start.

Additional info:

Using the negativo 17 provided yum repository to install the custom compiled version of the nvidia drivers does work as expected.

http://negativo17.org/nvidia-driver/

To fix, first reboot to runlevel 3, then:

dnf config-manager --add-repo=http://negativo17.org/repos/fedora-nvidia.repo

NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-358.09.run --uninstall

dnf install nvidia-driver nvidia-driver-libs.i686

mv /etc/X11/xorg.conf to-somewhere-else

cat << EOF > /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/00-nvidia.conf
Section "OutputClass"
Identifier "nvidia"
MatchDriver "nvidia-drm"
Driver "nvidia"
EndSection

EOF

systemctl start gdm

reboot

Comment 1 Hans de Goede 2015-11-02 07:46:07 UTC

Hi,

The proper place for this bug report is nvidia's bugtracker / forum there is nothing we can do from the Fedora side to fix this.

Regards,

Hans