My old desktop has used a GTX 650 card since 2013. The Nouveau driver just didn't work for my system. I tried it a few times over the years. Unfortunately nVidia's proprietary driver stopped supporting my card, relegating it to the "legacy" driver. That legacy driver does not get along with Wayland and modern Fedora no longer supports X11. Over the years, I had accumulated a bunch of kernel options in the grub configuration, all to stop Nouveau confusing things. I had to remove them. I edited /etc/default/grub and rebuilt grub's config files using grub2-mkconfig. Nouveau seems to be good enough now (but I no longer stress it with a million FireFox tabs). Old (all one line): GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="resume=UUID=6be9f593-abf3-4151-8b0a-8135946edbb4 rd.driver.blacklist=nouveau,nova_core modprobe.blacklist=nouveau,nova_core nvidia-drm.modeset=1" New: GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="resume=UUID=6be9f593-abf3-4151-8b0a-8135946edbb4" Unfortunately, grub itself used a video configuration that displayed illegible characters. Again, a change to /etc/default/grub and a grub2-mkconfig Old: GRUB_TERMINAL_OUTPUT="console" New: GRUB_TERMINAL_OUTPUT="gfxterm" GRUB_GFXMODE=1024x768 I tried 1920x1080 but that didn't help. I don't know why. I don't really know why "console" doesn't work or what "gfxterm" is. I got this from <https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/t/grub-menu-screen-resolution/138544/2>