@Berg,

I’m sorry to hear about the issue you’re experiencing.

Here’s how you can resolve the problem and repair the xorg.conf file:

1. Restart your computer and hold down the Shift key to access the GRUB menu and select the “Advanced options for Fedora” and then choose a recovery mode option or an older kernel.

2. Once you are in recovery mode, you should have access to a command line. If not, press Ctrl + Alt + F2 to switch to a different TTY and log in with your root credentials or a user with sudo privileges.

3. Backup your current xorg.conf file and delete it so that Xorg will attempt to auto-generate a new one.

sudo cp /etc/X11/xorg.conf /etc/X11/xorg.conf.bak
sudo rm /etc/X11/xorg.conf

4. Next, reinstall the Nvidia Driver and regenerate the initramfs to ensure all configurations are updated:

sudo dnf remove '*nvidia*'
sudo dnf install akmod-nvidia
sudo dnf install xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-cuda
sudo dracut --force
sudo reboot

This should help you resolve the issue.

Hi Ravi,

Yesterday night, I installed Fedora Workstation 40 alongside Win11 because I want to migrate to Linux. I followed your instructions in Method 2, and everything worked as you described.

Unfortunately, I answered the last question about starting the proprietary Nvidia driver when restarting X11 with “yes” although it was prechecked with “no“. After rebooting Fedora, I found myself facing a green window with no command line and no possibility to activate a command line to see what happened with the X11 configuration.

As I want to learn how to manage such issues, I would like to know how I can handle this issue and repair the xorg.conf file.

Can you help me with what to do, please?”

@Hammerhead,

Thank you for the heads up! We’ll make sure to recommend the Third Party Repo or the Negativo17 Repo for Nvidia driver installation on Fedora moving forward. Appreciate the input!

The Fedora Forums always have these links to sites with the manual method and peoples machines borking because of it.

Anyone looking to install Nvidia Drivers on Fedora just use the Third party Repo, or the Negativo17 Repo from their site.

The RPM method worked great and saved my life! The display looked HORRIBLE with the Nouveau driver.

Fedora 39 workstation (desktop), GeForce RTX 4060 Ti