Work around NVIDIA blue screen bug, by downgrading version (Update: fixed NVIDIA version released)

Update: New version 304.32 has been released which apparently fixes this issue, so this is no-longer neccessary. If you have already done this to get a working system and locked the version, remove then and update.
sudo vim /etc/yum/pluginconf.d/versionlock.list && sudo yum clean all && sudo yum update

Thanks to zektor in the Kororaa forums for posting this fix. It is reported on RPMFusion’s Bugzilla and nvnews.net.

The 300.x.x series NVIDIA driver (currently beta) has a bug which causes some newer GPUs to have a blue tinge on the screen. In Kororaa, Jockey installs this latest version.

If your card is supported by the previous version, you can downgrade to this to solve the problem, then lock yum so that it doesn’t upgrade to 300.x.x series.

Remove existing:

sudo yum erase *\nvidia\*

Downgrade version:
sudo yum install akmod-nvidia-295.53-1.fc17.1 \
xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-libs-295.53-\*.{x86_64,i686} \
xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-295.53-1.fc17 \
nvidia-settings-1.0-18.fc17 \
nvidia-xconfig-1.0-16.fc17

Lock version:
sudo yum install yum-versionlock
sudo yum versionlock akmod-nvidia-295.53-1.fc17.1 \
xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-libs-295.53-\*.{x86_64,i686} \
xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-295.53-1.fc17 \
nvidia-settings-1.0-18.fc17 \
nvidia-xconfig-1.0-16.fc17

Now you can reboot your machine.

7 thoughts on “Work around NVIDIA blue screen bug, by downgrading version (Update: fixed NVIDIA version released)

  1. Hi
    I noticed this buggy nvidia shit from the last kernel 3.5 and up tu 3.6
    and just use the kernel type 3.4.x.
    anyway to work around without to use the nvidia shit at the boot you can use nomodeset parameter.

  2. Please don’t lock the version, you won’t have the fixed version.
    (nvidia 304.32 was published to fix this issue).
    yum clean all && yum update -y

  3. Hello Chris, i know that i’m in a wrong place, but i want to notice to you that in the forum it’s not possible to insert any post.
    In my case i want to post my Kororaa review, but it’s impossible.

    How can to resolve this issue?

    Thanks a lot 🙂

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