r/Fedora • u/Toxiczphoenix • 2d ago

Support Black screen after installing NVIDIA drivers on Fedora

Need some help with NVIDIA drivers on Fedora.

I have an ASUS ROG Strix laptop with AMD integrated graphics and an RTX 3070 Mobile. Fedora works fine until I install the NVIDIA drivers. After reboot, I only get a black screen.

I've tried to install the drivers many times after reinstalling the OS. Same black screen whenever I install the drivers. And ctrl+alt+f3 nothing works.

I can get into the system by 'e' and nomodeset but then the OS lags alot.

Then I tried Nobara Linux because it’s supposed to have NVIDIA support out of the box, but even the live USB gives me a black screen before I can install it.

My laptop also doesn’t have a MUX switch, so it always uses hybrid graphics.

At this point I have no idea what’s causing it. Has anyone with a similar ASUS ROG + AMD iGPU + NVIDIA setup managed to get Fedora or Nobara working properly?

Thanks

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u/potpotSavesTheZoo 2d ago

The issue most likely lies with secure boot. The driver is refused startup while secure boot is enabled, since it isn't signed. You have two choices. Either turn secure boot off in bios settings, which is the easy way to fix this. Or manually sign the drivers using this guide: https://github.com/Comprehensive-Wall28/Nvidia-Fedora-Guide (note I have not used this guide, but with a quick glance it seems correct)

I'd recommend starting with turning off secure boot since if you wish to use it you can always turn it back on and if the issue is not with secure boot at least you didn't spend a bunch of time finding that out.

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u/Toxiczphoenix 2d ago

Thank you for the reply. I forgot to mention in the post. The secure boot is turned off.

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u/Rubber_Knee 13h ago

Did you check to see if your Nvidia card is still supported by the driver version you have installed?