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so beta 1 install after the mess created by the upgrade, at then end of install says a prorietry display driver is available

do you want to use it.

this is for an nvidia geforse 6800GT

on boot up a small dialog comes up and say

the proprietry kernel display driver was not found switching to nouveou

regards peter

so once the system is up and running i go into setup hardware in the mageia control center and
it again asks me d you want prorietry display driver, so i accept.

you need to reboot your computer for this to take effect

so i do

it boots into text mode.

this is without any updates, the beta1 64 bit DVD that was cut by the mageia team.

?

so login as root and startx

X/kde starts

but its using the nouveu driver again.

i check xorg.conf and it has not been updated to use the nvidia driver.

so i change it manualy, and after reboot, the damm things back at nouveu , so i set it to nvidia, and change its mode so it cant be overwriten, but X wont start

hangs on an error unable to connect to Xserver.

but the nvidia drivers and kernel are installed.

the 6800GT is on the list of valid nvidia cards for the 304 drivers.


regards peter

update, ok switched to vesa rebooted, then slected nvidia , and it asked if i wanted prorietry, which i accepted

after doing some stuff and asking me to reboot, i find its selected the nouveau driver again.

damm this thing, selecting vesa driver and installing the nvidia run driver see if that works, next.

suspect the mageia 3 nvidia driver and setup is just plain broken.

should not be this hard with an nvidia card.

regards peter

Please file a bug for this Peter, it may be your card is not listed somewhere it should be.

When you file the bug please file it against cauldron and add 3beta1 into the whiteboard field which you'll see at the top of the bug once you create it.

Could you also test with beta 2 when it becomes available.

Hi. I'm new to Mageia having recently been using various versions of Mandriva and Rosa (none currently).

In Mageia 3 Beta 1 x86_64 I'm having exact same problem with this hardware:

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$ lspci |grep VGA
00:05.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation C51PV [GeForce 6150] (rev a2)

Attached are CLI output of 'XFdrake' and '# rpm -qa *\nvidia\* *\kernel\*|sort;uname -r;lsmod |grep -e nvidia -e nouveau;cat /etc/X11/xorg.conf' run immediately after XFdrake in the file 'nvidia.txt'. Also attached are output after rebooting of 'dmesg' and '/var/log/Xorg.0.log' in the file reboot.txt.

It seems odd that even with 'rdblacklist=nouveau blacklist=nouveau xdriver=nvidia' in kernel command line that 'nouveau' driver is still loading. My understanding is that nouveau and nvidia cannot play in the same sandbox. In other words nouveau has to be somehow blacklisted or otherwise prevented from loading in order for nvidia kernel module to load. Don't know enough to know if that is the problem here.

I can add my information to existing bug report if one exists for this issue or file a new one.

I've also been having a similar experience with the nvidia-304 driver and kernel-3.8.0-0.rc4.1.

I've opened a bug report if anyone wants to add any additional information:

https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8773

Jim

Thanks for that. I'm currently working 12+ hrs/day. Will read and add to if/as appropriate towards about Thursday.

FWIW: nouveau hasn't worked on this box in Mandriva/Rosa/Whatever since 2010.2. It is working here including for, on my HW, first time ever viewing videos. On the other hand it is a bit herky jerky...

Ok, added my 2 cents to above bug report.

There is a possible work around described here:

https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8773

not sure yet if this is relevant, but on the nv forums theres a suggestion that the 304.64 wont compile its dkms module against

3.7.0, and thats been my expirience today, first time ive had time to get back to this with the nvidia run file.

im trying at this min their suggestion that theres a fix in the 3.1.3.09 beta driver.

edit/update

ok the 3.1.3.09 does compile ok unlike the 304.64, but unfortunatly my 6800GT is now regarded as legacy from 3.1.3.09 onwards and not supported.

but 304.64 classed as legacy by the 3.13 driver does support it but its broken..... great

so next ill try an older driver

update , ive read previous post and the bug report assosiated with it, and tend to agree, that until this is flagged as fixed, any version of MGA3 testing is off the cards for me.

regards peter

The bug seems to have been in harddrake. With the updated harddrake, reconfiguring the display driver should result in the nvidia304 driver being used. If you are using Grub2, you may have to add the nokmsboot kernel parameter manually.

Anssi has provided a full explanation:

https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8773#c44

Jim