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Since the update to the 390.77 driver I cannot boot into the proprietary Nvidia driver. I am automatically switched into Nouveau which does not support OpenGL4.
I go to MCC and choose the proprietary driver and reboot. On reboot I get an error message that the proprietary driver cannot be found and the system automatically switches over to Nouveau.
Installed on my system are:

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x11-driver-video-nvidia-current-390.77-1.1.mga6.nonfree
nvidia-current-doc-html-390.77-1.1.mga6.nonfree
dkms-nvidia-current-390.77-1.1.mga6.nonfree
nvidia-current-cuda-opencl-390.77-1.1.mga6.nonfree
nvidia-current-devel-390.77-1.1.mga6.nonfree
dkms-2.0.19-39.mga6
dkms-minimal-2.0.19-39.mga6
dkms-nvidia-current-390.77-1.1.mga6.nonfree


So I do not understand why the NVidia driver cannot be used.
I did try to modprobe nvidia-current which is hte line in the /etc/nvidia-current/modprobe.conf file and get the message: Module nvidia not found in directory /lib/modules/4.14.62-desktop-2.mga6
Could there be a problem with the new proprietary driver? Do I need to copy something into that location?
Thank you

Do you have kernel-desktop-devel-latest installed?

Jim

jkerr82508 wrote:Do you have kernel-desktop-devel-latest installed?

Jim

It was not installed with all the updates, so I did it manually. I also found that "nokmsboot" was not in the kernel command line and needed to be added. With that all done, I was able to boot into the nvidia driver and get OpenGL4 back. Thank youl

edit doktor5000:It would help if you wouldn't crosspost information to bugzilla and missing that information here. For reference, this is what I'm referring to: https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=23433

You currently seem to only have the dkms version of the module installed, and seems it was not compiled yet for the currently used kernel. You're also missing information on what kernel you're currently using.

Please provide the output as root of

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rpm -qa|sort|grep -iE "dkms|kernel|nvidia"
dkms status
cat /proc/cmdline

and attach your /var/log/Xorg.0.log here

Sorry for cross posting; I was frustrated.
As noted in the thread, I have resolved the issue with addition of "nokmsboot" to the command line.
cat /proc/cmdline:

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BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-4.14.62-desktop-2.mga6 root=UUID=c212fc63-a157-430f-a86b-adc8d4f4b7fe ro splash quiet nokmsboot noiswmd resume=UUID=7d711f36-0b20-4135-9877-cb59a1643723 audit=0 vga=791


dkms status

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nvidia-current, 390.77-1.1.mga6.nonfree, 4.14.62-desktop-2.mga6, x86_64: installed


Again, my apologies for causing unnecessary work for anyone.