Tag: nvidia

Installing the proprietary NVIDIA drivers on Fedora 29

Check out the rest of this story here, if you’re looking for the full tale of woe. This is the final article in my story regarding start to finish, getting my Dell Inspiron from a fresh install of Fedora 29, to a functional laptop. It wasn’t easy. Mostly thanks to the NVIDIA 960M that the…


Fedora 29 – Discrete NVIDIA – Boot troubles

In my third article in this series, I’m going to talk a bit about the failure case I hit after installing Fedora 29 on my laptop, and how I was able to get to a command line to fix it. You can read the story up to this point in this article. To sum up…


Discrete video adapters, in Fedora 29, you poor doomed soul

OK, so something posessed me to reinstall my perfectly functional Dell Inspiron 7559 with an Nvidia discrete 960m display adapter.  I’ve been through this a few times, and every time it’s been a hassle.  The Fedora project has made some changes recently that have made it even trickier.  I just went through a fresh install,…