MG-5 upgrade with older NVIDIA, 1st boot "hangs" early.
Posted: Jul 12th, '15, 18:33This is thoroughly discussed and solved in https://forums.mageia.org/en/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=9885, but I make this additional post within "Video Support" for those who recognized it as an Nvidia-related issue:
This problem WILL appear if you use a recent Nvidia driver on MG-4 and just performed a command-line upgrade (online), AND your default video mode is runlevel 5 ("start X-Server on boot), AND your card is from the generations "Geforce 8xxx, 9xxx or "100 to 415". [ Gory detail: Your MG-4 system was using an NVidia driver named as version "346", although the new NVidia package for running these cards on MG-5 is named "340". Therefore, command-line upgrade via 'urpmi --auto-update' did not replace your old driver. ]
Solution:
Restart MG-5 in "safe mode". Enter the root password ("to continue..."). Then:
Switch the Graphics Video driver to Xorg/Vesa.
Now restart MG-5 normally (Runlevel 5, not "Safe Mode"). You now have graphical desktop, although DPI is probably wrong, and you have no "effects".
Start MCC (graphical version). Go to Hardware - Manage Graphical Server.
Re-choose your NVidia card, and when it offers a checkbox to use the proprietary driver, click on "Yes".
You should see MCC install the '340' driver from the network. Restart normally, and everything should be working well.
This problem WILL appear if you use a recent Nvidia driver on MG-4 and just performed a command-line upgrade (online), AND your default video mode is runlevel 5 ("start X-Server on boot), AND your card is from the generations "Geforce 8xxx, 9xxx or "100 to 415". [ Gory detail: Your MG-4 system was using an NVidia driver named as version "346", although the new NVidia package for running these cards on MG-5 is named "340". Therefore, command-line upgrade via 'urpmi --auto-update' did not replace your old driver. ]
Solution:
Restart MG-5 in "safe mode". Enter the root password ("to continue..."). Then:
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# telinit 3 (enter runlevel 3 to activate networking)
# mcc (start the command-line version of Mageia Control Center)
Switch the Graphics Video driver to Xorg/Vesa.
Now restart MG-5 normally (Runlevel 5, not "Safe Mode"). You now have graphical desktop, although DPI is probably wrong, and you have no "effects".
Start MCC (graphical version). Go to Hardware - Manage Graphical Server.
Re-choose your NVidia card, and when it offers a checkbox to use the proprietary driver, click on "Yes".
You should see MCC install the '340' driver from the network. Restart normally, and everything should be working well.