[SOLVED] nvidia problems with new MG2A3 install.

[pnunn]

Hi folks,

I've just done a clean install on a laptop of MG2A3 and all worked will (mostly).

I have one comment before I launch into the nvidia issue. It isn't possible to do a full wifi install on this laptop that uses an intel chipset as the required driver isn't on the disk. Not a problem to me really, but to someone with just a wifi connection it would be a show stopper (comment only).

Now.. the issue I have,

The laptop has an nvidia graphics card and when I try and install the driver I'm getting

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urpmi dkms-nvidia-current
A requested package cannot be installed:
dkms-nvidia-current-209.10-1.mga2.nofree.x86_64 (due to unsatisfied dims)


I'm not sure how to get this installed from here. Any ideas please?
The kernel drivers seem to be for desktop 3.2.2, but this is running 3.2.0 and I can't find a 3.2.2 kernel in the list on offer (yes, I have updated my repos).

Ta

Peter.

[doktor5000]

I have one comment before I launch into the nvidia issue. It isn't possible to do a full wifi install on this laptop that uses an intel chipset as the required driver isn't on the disk. Not a problem to me really, but to someone with just a wifi connection it would be a show stopper (comment only).

You might want to take a look at the following thread: https://www.zarb.org/pipermail/mageia-d ... 10752.html
as there is now a nonfree boot.iso with some drivers and firmware available, specifically it contains
the firmware for most intel wireless chipsets, kernel-firmware-extra and radeon-firmware

urpmi dkms-nvidia-current
A requested package cannot be installed:
dkms-nvidia-current-209.10-1.mga2.nofree.x86_64 (due to unsatisfied dims)

Copy&Paste error or typo. The error message is incorrect, the package requires dkms.
Please show the output of

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urpmf -f --name dkms | sort

Unrelated, why do you install the driver manually via urpmi when you can let drakx11 do the work?

Otherwise, the dkms packages are not dependent on any kernel version, that the awesome thing about it.
dkms is an acronym for dynamic kernel module system, when it detects a new running kernel, then it automatically
recompiles the drivers for which you have dkms packages installed, given that you have installed the corresponding kernel-devel
packages, but those should have been installed when you first install some dkms driver package.

[pnunn]

Thankyou Doktor sorted too.. I think all of these errors are related to a bad mirror at aarnet. Now that I've changed that and loaded all of the updates, it seems to have sorted itself out.

I did initially use drakx11 to try and install this driver, but it failed, hence my trying to do it manually.

Thanks again.

Peter.