How to fix a black screen

[Starbeamrainbowlabs]

If a desktop is showing a black screen on boot, several things could have gone wrong.

If the desktop is using the nvidia drivers, check the troubleshooting tips on the Nvidia driver installation guide:

Installing nvidia drivers on Fedora 30+

The process for installing the NVidia drivers on Fedora 30+ is slightly different. Now, you need to do this: Enable the 3rd party repo: sudo dnf config-manager --add-repo=https://negativo17.org/repos/fedora-nvidia.repo Next, ensure the machine is fully up-to-date: sudo dnf update --refresh Note that you’ll need to reboot of there’s a kernel update now. Then, you install the drivers: sudo dnf install nvidia-settings kernel-devel dkms-nvidia nvidia-driver nvidia-driver-cuda nvidia-driver-cu…

If not, then check:

1. …to make sure that the nouveau driver is actually installed.
2. That the nvidia drivers are not installed: dnf list installed | grep -i nvidia