[SOLVED] nvidia broken after upgrade to kernel 3.14.39

[pernel]

After upgrade today to kernel 3.14.39 graphics was broken. The graphics is Quadro Nvidia FX1800. System Mageia 4.1 64-bit. During boot sequence a message comes up telling about three different nvidia drivers (all non-free) already installed and then "checking for new harware". After that a message window pops up approximately telling (translated from Swedish):
"The system should be restarted because a new grphics driver was installed, OK/Cancel".
If I select Ok, the system repeats the above, if I select cancel the system seem to hang.
ctrl-alt-F2 gives me a console though an I can login with a remote desktop.
Found in other threads that

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urpme dkms-nvidia-current
urpmi dkms-nvidia-current
reboot

could solve similar problems, but not in this case. I also removed virtualbox but with no result.
Also tried to boot with older and much older kernels with similar result.
Any suggestions?

[doktor5000]

You could temporarily select a different graphics driver via running drakx11 as root in terminal, e.g. choose nouveau, nv or maybe even vesa.
Could you please also as root post the output of

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rpm -qa | grep -i -e kernel -e nvidia | sort
dkms status

[pernel]

Output of command:

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[root@LinDell per]# rpm -qa | grep -i -e kernel -e nvidia | sort
dkms-nvidia-current-331.113-1.mga4.nonfree
dkms-nvidia173-173.14.39-2.mga4.nonfree
dkms-nvidia304-304.125-1.mga4.nonfree
kernel-desktop-3.12.13-2.mga4-1-1.mga4
kernel-desktop-3.14.32-1.mga4-1-1.mga4
kernel-desktop-3.14.39-1.mga4-1-1.mga4
kernel-desktop-latest-3.14.39-1.mga4
kernel-firmware-20131013-2.mga4
kernel-server-3.12.21-2.mga4-1-1.mga4
kernel-server-3.14.32-1.mga4-1-1.mga4
kernel-server-3.14.39-1.mga4-1-1.mga4
kernel-server-devel-3.14.32-1.mga4-1-1.mga4
kernel-server-devel-3.14.39-1.mga4-1-1.mga4
kernel-server-devel-latest-3.14.39-1.mga4
kernel-server-latest-3.14.39-1.mga4
kernel-userspace-headers-3.14.39-1.mga4
nvidia-current-doc-html-331.113-1.mga4.nonfree
nvidia-current-kernel-3.12.13-desktop-2.mga4-331.49-2.mga4.nonfree
nvidia-current-kernel-3.12.21-server-2.mga4-331.79-2.mga4.nonfree
nvidia-current-kernel-3.14.32-desktop-1.mga4-331.113-3.mga4.nonfree
nvidia-current-kernel-3.14.32-server-1.mga4-331.113-3.mga4.nonfree
nvidia-current-kernel-3.14.39-desktop-1.mga4-331.113-6.mga4.nonfree
nvidia-current-kernel-3.14.39-server-1.mga4-331.113-6.mga4.nonfree
nvidia-current-kernel-desktop-latest-331.113-6.mga4.nonfree
nvidia-current-kernel-server-latest-331.113-6.mga4.nonfree
nvidia173-doc-html-173.14.39-2.mga4.nonfree
nvidia173-kernel-3.12.13-desktop-2.mga4-173.14.39-13.mga4.nonfree
nvidia173-kernel-3.12.21-server-2.mga4-173.14.39-17.mga4.nonfree
nvidia173-kernel-3.14.32-desktop-1.mga4-173.14.39-31.mga4.nonfree
nvidia173-kernel-3.14.32-server-1.mga4-173.14.39-31.mga4.nonfree
nvidia173-kernel-3.14.39-desktop-1.mga4-173.14.39-36.mga4.nonfree
nvidia173-kernel-3.14.39-server-1.mga4-173.14.39-36.mga4.nonfree
nvidia173-kernel-desktop-latest-173.14.39-36.mga4.nonfree
nvidia173-kernel-server-latest-173.14.39-36.mga4.nonfree
nvidia304-doc-html-304.125-1.mga4.nonfree
nvidia304-kernel-3.12.13-desktop-2.mga4-304.119-5.mga4.nonfree
nvidia304-kernel-3.12.21-server-2.mga4-304.119-12.mga4.nonfree
nvidia304-kernel-3.14.32-desktop-1.mga4-304.125-3.mga4.nonfree
nvidia304-kernel-3.14.32-server-1.mga4-304.125-3.mga4.nonfree
nvidia304-kernel-3.14.39-desktop-1.mga4-304.125-6.mga4.nonfree
nvidia304-kernel-3.14.39-server-1.mga4-304.125-6.mga4.nonfree
nvidia304-kernel-desktop-latest-304.125-6.mga4.nonfree
nvidia304-kernel-server-latest-304.125-6.mga4.nonfree
virtualbox-kernel-3.14.32-server-1.mga4-4.3.26-1.mga4
virtualbox-kernel-3.14.39-desktop-1.mga4-4.3.26-6.mga4
x11-driver-video-nvidia-current-331.113-1.mga4.nonfree
x11-driver-video-nvidia173-173.14.39-2.mga4.nonfree
x11-driver-video-nvidia304-304.125-1.mga4.nonfree


Strange, I thought I uninstalled everything releated to virtualbox. Just to be sure I will remove it and try again.

Next I will a test different driver as you suggested.

[pernel]

Well, removing traces of virtualbox-kernel did not help.
drakx11 and nouveau restored graphics but fontsize, icon size windows size does not fit very well with the screen resolution of 1280 by 1024. Everything is too large and a bit blurred due to pixel interpolation.

[pernel]

Thanks for advice so far.
Nouveau made it possible to use MCC and test (again) different Nvidia drivers.
Before this kernel upgrade the driver for Geforce FX series did not work, However GeForce 400 series worked. It was GeForce 400 that was broken for my card by this kernel update.
Today GeForce 2 MX to Geforce 4 is working and now I'm using that. But I don't se any obvious difference in performance compared to Nouveau.
It's a pity Nvida drivers so often break when kernels are updated with this card. Maybe the reason is that the card is obsolete and Nvidia stopped supporting it.

[doktor5000]

Well, even if nvidia stopped supporting it in their latest drivers, this is why we now already have 4 different versions packaged.
FWIW, for me the nvidia drivers never broke, but I also make sure that I don't have the nvidia-kernel packages with the binary DKMS modules,
but only dkms-nvidia installed.

The Quadro FX 1800 is supported by the so-called "legacy" driver from the 340.xx series, where the most current is version 340.76.
You can see the overview here: http://www.nvidia.com/object/unix.html