Fedora 24 Upgrade - Flawless 4k Support
Hello All, I did a fresh install of Fedora 24 on a new SSD and did not have to do anything special for it to recognize the nVidia GeForce 960 video card or my 40" Philips 4k monitor. The Nouveau driver worked without a hitch, thus eliminating my dependency on the proprietary binary driver, not that it was much of a hardship to deal with in Fedora 23. The random flickering that I would see on a daily basis on a visible part of a window that did not have focus that I used to see with Fedora 23 and the proprietary binary driver from nVidia has not happened in 24 hours of operation with Fedora 24. One oddity was that try as I might, I could not get a USB key created via Unetbootin in Fedora 23 to boot the Fedora 24 netinstall image so I had to burn a CD and boot from that. I had previously used Unetbootin to create a Fedora 24 Beta Live bootable device with the same key and it had worked. -- Regards, Clifford Ilkay + 1 647-778-8696
| From: CLIFFORD ILKAY via talk <talk@gtalug.org> | One oddity was that try as I might, I could not get a USB key created via | Unetbootin in Fedora 23 to boot the Fedora 24 netinstall image so I had to | burn a CD and boot from that. I had previously used Unetbootin to create a | Fedora 24 Beta Live bootable device with the same key and it had worked. The normal way of making a Fedora USB stick is to dd the .iso directly onto the stick. As in: time sudo dd if=whatever.iso of=/dev/sdg bs=16M oflag=direct This stick can be used to install on UEFI or MBR systems (but be sure to boot it in the same mode as you wish to install). The advantage of Unetbootin is that resulting live system can have a persistent writeable filesystem. But it is finicky. Fedora also has a (finicky) Live USB Creator. If you are doing a UEFI install, you needed to have booted the install medium in UEFI mode. I don't know if Unetbootin or Live USB Creator can produce a UEFI-bootable stick.
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D. Hugh Redelmeier