I use Nvidia graphic card on my Fedora laptop. Today I have upgraded the Linux kernel to the newest version. As you may already know, I changed my graphic driver from the Nvidia driver that comes with RPM Fusion repo to the official driver because of the Second Life issue. Because of that, I prepared to enter command mode after the upgrade to reinstall the graphic driver in order to work with the new kernel. I restarted my laptop and it freezes after the Fedora boot up screen for no reason. I pressed F8 when restarted my laptop again and boot up Fedora by using old kernel before the update.
After it booted up, I reinstalled Nvidia official driver for the new kernel and restarted. Surprisingly, it still didn’t work. I restarted the laptop once again and googled my problem. I found this short article over phoronix.com. It seems that this problem is caused by the broken kernel DRM interface in the new kernel.
I’m excited to know that the new incomplete Nouveau driver is in this kernel release. After I read about this, I don’t have any choice but to change the default boot kernel to the previous kernel by editing the grub.conf file in /boot/grub/ directory until the next kernel update. Hopefully the next release of Linux kernel would solve this problem as well as release the new Nouveau driver with it that will soon to be completed.
