Solved --System settings menu is black

[leon244]

I have done a recent install on a new machine and have had a lot of trouble with video. I finally got it settled but when I open the systemsettings app the left hand menu section is black and I can see nothing. Interestingly I can click within the black area and sometime hit on a menu item and it comes up.
I have played with graphic settings to no avail (other than to make things worse)
I have tried multiple Nvidia drivers from the graphical set up and only the 550.100 seems to be stable
Current set up is
Mageia9 kernel 6.6.43
NVidia driver 550.100-1 (for 745 and later)
Asustek monitor set up as "plug'n'play
Graphics card GEFORCE RTX 4070 super

Any ideas or suggestions are welcome
Thanks in advance

[doktor5000]

Hi there, with what graphic settings did you play in particular? Also the more recent nvidia cards (745 and later) are only supported by one driver (nvidia-current), you can't try multiple drivers for those, not sure what you selected there.
FWIW, I have an RTX 4070 too and it works out of the box, both with the proprietary nvidia driver and also with the free one.

Your description about systemsettings sounds a bit like a broken OpenGL setup which can happen if you manually installed an nvidia driver from their website.

[leon244]

I tried different drivers but went back to 745 or later from the graphics menu. I am using nvidia_current. But I get unstable results if I don't disable Render and hardware acceleration. My nvidia install was from Mageia and not the nvidia site. I am set up with dual monitors. I will keep searching. Thx

[doktor5000]

What different drivers did you try, because there is basically only nvidia 745 or later and the free nouveau driver?
Also, what does it actually mean if you say unstable ?

[leon244]

I had tried other drivers listed under the Nvidia list, but in the end you were correct I just set everything back to plug 'n' play or 'auto' and let the system set up teh monitors and chose the 745 driver and it all is working now. I don't know why it didn't work at first, but I am functioning now.
Thanks for your help

[morgano]

For even newer versions, if you like, check out nonfree/updates_testing/ for "nvidia-current" 550.107 and even "nvidia-newfeature" 560.35

You are much welcome to join the QA group
https://wiki.mageia.org/en/QA_Team