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After upgrade and reboot in xorg.conf file "nvidia" driver was replaced with "nouveau". I have run XFDrake to change video driver. Selected GeForce 8100 to GeForce 360 (lshw prints that mi card is: product: G92 [GeForce 9600 GSO]) and then I pressed "Test" buton I got error: "An error occured: no screens found"
in Xorg.9.log file it say: Failed to load module "nvidia" (module-specific error, 0)
in syslog I found this:

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May 30 22:43:33 icobgr kernel: NVRM: The NVIDIA probe routine was not called for 1 device(s).
May 30 22:43:33 icobgr kernel: NVRM: This can occur when a driver such as nouveau, rivafb,
May 30 22:43:33 icobgr kernel: NVRM: nvidiafb, or rivatv was loaded and obtained ownership of
May 30 22:43:33 icobgr kernel: NVRM: the NVIDIA device(s).
May 30 22:43:33 icobgr kernel: NVRM: Try unloading the conflicting kernel module (and/or
May 30 22:43:33 icobgr kernel: NVRM: reconfigure your kernel without the conflicting
May 30 22:43:33 icobgr kernel: NVRM: driver(s)), then try loading the NVIDIA kernel module
May 30 22:43:33 icobgr kernel: NVRM: again.
May 30 22:43:33 icobgr kernel: NVRM: No NVIDIA graphics adapter probed!

Please help me.

My response will likely be criticized by others here but my recommendation would be to install the nvidia driver directly from the nvidia website. I had similar problems to yours when I installed M2.

My recommendation would be to file a bug report if Mageia nvidia driver setup is not working, so the problem can be fixed properly.
https://wiki.mageia.org/en/How_to_report_a_bug_properly

Apart from that, test function often fails, just select nvidia, and then reboot and try it.
If the test function doesn't work, that's not a real problem. Ugly, but not a real problem.
Also check that the bootloader entry in /boot/grub/menu.lst has nokmsboot

I'm using grub2. How to add this nokmsboot?

I have solved the problem with disable of loading nouveau.
While I'm in KDE using nouveau I did following:
1. I have created file /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist-nouveau.conf with content:

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blacklist nouveau
options nouveau modeset=0

2. Started XFDrake and selected Nvidia driver and saved configuration without testing.

3. Reboot

And surprising nvidia driver has loaded.

Please mark the thread accordingly by editing the topic of the first post and prefix it by [SOLVED], thanks