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There was an update recently that updated the kernel to version 3.4.24-3. But, after rebooting the system notified me that the nvidia driver could not be found (worked fine up to this point) and was now using the nouveau driver. I tried setting it up again from the Mageia Control Center, but that didn't work. What should I do?

I'm using Mageia 2 32-bit (KDE edition, if that's relevant). Some more info:

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$ lspci | grep VGA
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation GF110 [GeForce GTX 560 Ti] (rev a1)


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$ glxinfo | grep OpenGL
OpenGL vendor string: nouveau
OpenGL renderer string: Gallium 0.4 on NVCE
OpenGL version string: 2.1 Mesa 8.0.4
OpenGL shading language version string: 1.30
OpenGL extensions:


Can you give the output of 'rpm -qa | grep kernel' please.

Thanks for replying so quickly! The output is:

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# rpm -qa | grep kernel
kernel-desktop-devel-3.4.24-3.mga2-1-1.mga2
libkplatokernel9-2.4.1-1.mga2
virtualbox-kernel-desktop-latest-4.1.24-2.mga2
kernel-desktop-3.3.6-2.mga2-1-1.mga2
kernel-firmware-20120219-1.mga2
kernel-desktop-devel-3.3.8-2.mga2-1-1.mga2
kernel-desktop-latest-3.4.24-3.mga2
virtualbox-kernel-3.3.8-desktop-2.mga2-4.1.18-1.mga2
kernel-desktop-devel-3.3.6-2.mga2-1-1.mga2
kernel-userspace-headers-3.4.24-3.mga2
kernel-desktop-3.4.24-3.mga2-1-1.mga2
nvidia-current-kernel-desktop-latest-295.49-4.mga2.nonfree
kernel-desktop-3.3.8-2.mga2-1-1.mga2
virtualbox-kernel-3.3.6-desktop-2.mga2-4.1.12-7.mga2
virtualbox-kernel-3.4.24-desktop-3.mga2-4.1.24-2.mga2
nvidia-current-kernel-3.3.6-desktop-2.mga2-295.49-4.mga2.nonfree
kernel-desktop-devel-latest-3.4.24-3.mga2


Do you have nonfree media enabled?

Nonfree Release & Nonfree Updates

Um...I'm embarassed to say that I somehow managed to forget to enable nonfree updates.
I've since enabled them and this seems to have fixed my problem.

Thanks for your help and sorry for such a noobish error on my part!

You're very welcome. I'm quite relieved that is all it was!

Would you mind marking the topic as solved, just edit your first post and add [SOLVED] to the title.

Done and thanks again!