{"id":1598,"date":"2015-11-04T19:35:26","date_gmt":"2015-11-04T19:35:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/?p=1598"},"modified":"2015-11-05T20:20:29","modified_gmt":"2015-11-05T20:20:29","slug":"nvidia-incompatible-with-fedora-23-xorg-and-a-workaround","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/?p=1598","title":{"rendered":"NVIDIA – Incompatible with Fedora 23 Xorg – and a Workaround.."},"content":{"rendered":"

Just updated to Fedora 23<\/strong>, and the NVIDIA driver would not load\/run.. (tested with the latest – 358.09 and 352.55)<\/p>\n

================ WARNING WARNING WARNING WARNING ================<\/span><\/strong>\r\nThis server has a video driver ABI version of 20.0 that this<\/span><\/strong>\r\ndriver does not officially support. Please check<\/span><\/strong>\r\nhttp:\/\/www.nvidia.com\/ for driver updates or downgrade to an X<\/span><\/strong>\r\nserver with a supported driver ABI.<\/span><\/strong>\r\n=================================================================<\/span><\/strong>\r\n(EE) NVIDIA: Use the -ignoreABI option to override this check.<\/span><\/strong>\r\n(EE)<\/span><\/strong>\r\nFatal server error:<\/span><\/strong>\r\n(EE) no screens found(EE)<\/span><\/strong>\r\n(EE)<\/span><\/strong>\r\nPlease consult the Fedora Project support<\/span><\/strong>\r\n at http:\/\/wiki.x.org<\/span><\/strong>\r\n for help.<\/span><\/strong>\r\n(EE) Please also check the log file at \"\/var\/log\/Xorg.0.log\" for additional information.<\/span><\/strong>\r\n(EE)<\/span><\/strong>\r\n(EE) Server terminated with error (1). Closing log file.<\/span><\/strong>\r\nxinit: giving up<\/span><\/strong>\r\nxinit: unable to connect to X server: Connection refused<\/span><\/strong>\r\nxinit: server error<\/span><\/strong><\/pre>\n
There is a wealth of forum traffic on this, and all the ‘solutions’ are a bit messy, but I opted to downgrade<\/em> the Xorg server for the time being, to the version used for Fedora 22.\u00a0\u00a0 There are several dependencies, so I used:<\/p>\n
# dnf --allowerasing --releasever=22 downgrade xorg-x11-server-Xorg<\/span><\/strong><\/pre>\n
This fixed the problem, but you also need to be careful to prevent updates during the normal update cycle..<\/p>\n
The real fix will be when NVIDIA releases a driver that supports the ‘new’ Xorg 1.18 API…<\/p>\n
Addendum:<\/p>\n
To prevent dnf updates from reinstalling the F23 versions, add exclude=xorg-x11* <\/strong>to \/etc\/dnf\/dnf.conf<\/span><\/strong> (but remember to remove this, when the correct driver is available..)<\/p>\n
Robert Gadsdon.\u00a0 November 5, 2015<\/em><\/p>\n
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Just updated to Fedora 23, and the NVIDIA driver would not load\/run.. (tested with the latest – 358.09 and 352.55) ================ WARNING WARNING WARNING WARNING ================ This server has a video driver ABI version of 20.0 that this driver does not officially support. Please check http:\/\/www.nvidia.com\/ for driver updates or downgrade to an X server with a …<\/span> Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,10,11,15,18,19],"tags":[1220,1219,1216,1218,277,418,1217],"class_list":["post-1598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crash-and-burn","category-fedora","category-hacks","category-linux-2","category-nvidia","category-opinion","tag-dnf","tag-downgrade","tag-fedora-23","tag-incompatible","tag-nvidia-2","tag-workaround","tag-xorg-abi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1598","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1598"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1598\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1604,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1598\/revisions\/1604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}