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Nvidia Geforce GTS 360M

PostPosted: Sep 21st, '11, 17:56
by paulov
Hi

I am new to Linux. I started using Mandriva about 2 months ago and then decided to move to Mageia when everyone started raving about the distribution.

I have a Toshiba Qosmio X500 Laptop with a core i7 Q70 running at 1.6Ghz. It has 8 GB of Ram and an onboard NVidia Geforce GTS 360M.

I installed the 64 bit edition of Mageia 1 and everything seemed to go ok in the beginning. After the installation, I find that I cannot boot into KDE because the graphics are all "scrambled" if that is the right way to say it. It seems to be a graphics driver problem and I am unsure of what to do next since a am a newbie when it comes to matters linux.

Please help.

Re: Nvidia Geforce GTS 360M

PostPosted: Sep 21st, '11, 18:20
by doktor5000
You can boot into failsafe mode, login as root, run drakx11 and switch temporarily to the Vesa driver, which should allow you to login to KDE at least.