Cannot install Nvidia driver Mageia 10 and 9

[perfectsense]

Hello. I have a laptop with an Nvidia GeForce RTX 2050 graphics card, and I'm trying to install Nvidia drivers via MCC. In both Mageia 9 and Mageia 10, with both the New Feature (590) and Production (580) drivers, a black screen appears after rebooting. However, in other distributions, both drivers install fine. Would have been nice to receive some advice on how to install Nvidia drivers. Thank you.

[morgano]

Make sure you have the corresponding *-devel-* package for your kernel.

In MCC, did you go -> Hardware -> Set up the graphical server?

Also see https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Setup_the_graphical_server

[perfectsense]

Make sure you have the corresponding *-devel-* package for your kernel.

Yes, I have kernel-desktop-devel package installed

In MCC, did you go -> Hardware -> Set up the graphical server?

Yes

[morgano]

Interesting, two users with nvidia problems at the same time!
Do you know how to look in system journal, and do you see something interesting there?
See https://forums.mageia.org/en/viewtopic. ... 811#p92159
Also check outputs of the same commands i asked for there for checking dkms status and nvidia and kernel packages.

[perfectsense]

Do you know how to look in system journal, and do you see something interesting there?

No, I don't see any interesting

journal_nvidia.log

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$ dkms status
nvidia-newfeature, 590.48.01-4.mga10.nonfree, 6.18.4-desktop-2.mga10, x86_64: installed


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$ rpm -qa | grep -e nvidia -e kernel| sort
kernel-firmware-20251125-1.mga10
kernel-desktop-6.12.62-5.mga10-1-1.mga10
remove-old-kernels-1.0.1-1.mga10
kernel-firmware-nonfree-20251125-2.mga10.nonfree
kernel-desktop-6.18.4-1.mga10-1-1.mga10
lib64nvidia-egl-wayland1-1.1.21-2.mga10
lib64nvidia-egl-wayland2_1-1.0.1-0.20251130.1.git6bbe588.2.mga10
kernel-stable-testing-userspace-headers-6.18.3-2.stabletesting.mga10
kernel-desktop-devel-6.18.4-1.mga10-1-1.mga10
kernel-desktop-devel-6.18.4-2.mga10-1-1.mga10
kernel-desktop-6.18.4-2.mga10-1-1.mga10
kernel-desktop-latest-6.18.4-2.mga10
kernel-desktop-devel-latest-6.18.4-2.mga10
dkms-nvidia-newfeature-590.48.01-4.mga10.nonfree
nvidia-newfeature-utils-590.48.01-4.mga10.nonfree
kernel-desktop-6.12.63-1.mga10-1-1.mga10
nvidia-newfeature-doc-html-590.48.01-4.mga10.nonfree
x11-driver-video-nvidia-newfeature-590.48.01-4.mga10.nonfree
nvidia-newfeature-initramfs-590.48.01-4.mga10.nonfree
nvidia-newfeature-cuda-opencl-590.48.01-4.mga10.nonfree
nvidia-newfeature-devel-590.48.01-4.mga10.nonfree



[morgano]

This is Mageia 10 with updated 6.18 kernel.
You do have matching kernel-devel and system seems to think it installs nvidia successfully.
But there are lots of modprobe nvidia lines with "failed with exit code 1"
I also see you tried nvidia-current-open
As you say those drivers work on your system using other distros, I wonder what goes wrong, and we should have that fixed.

Please open a bug report.
https://wiki.mageia.org/en/How_to_report_a_bug_properly