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…
Adding a local user, in Fedora 29’s Live environment
As I wrote in this article, I’ve recently gone through some trouble with Fedora 29 and my laptop. The first issue I ran into was, the installer, when launched from the LiveUSB for F29, doesn’t create a local user, or let you set roots password. So, the first step I had to take in fixing…
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,…