May 2, 2024

Fedora 40 -- upgrade via DNF

Fedora 40 just came out. Let's try using DNF to take my home machine from 39 to 40. My 39 install was a full from scratch, so this ought to be easy since that flushed out a lot of cruft. 
su
dnf update
dnf upgrade --refresh
 - Ultimately nothing to do by either of the above
dnf -y system-upgrade download --refresh --releasever=40
2997 packages to download. Indeed, no issues. And we have a bigger root partition due to the way I install F39. 
dnf system-upgrade reboot
Type escape to see actual system messages in lieu of the cute graphical progress screen.

This all worked out in short order and I am now running Fedora 40, but ...
My mouse is slow as a pig -- I suspect my Nvidia driver setup got lost.

akmod-nvidia

I run "dnf update" and it finds 12 packages, including a new akmod-nvidia driver and a bunch of nvidia related packages.

AHA!! So, I reboot after this, and I now have a system I can use and enjoy. I went through an issue like this with Fedora 38 also, and all I had to do was wait and install an updated akmod driver.

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