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I installed on an i5-6600K, Asus Z170-A board, GTX 960, Samsung S24E650BW display with 1920*1200 resolution, intel graphics was disabled in BIOS (there's no real option to disable it, but you can tell it to stay inoperable if the PCIe graphics card is in use). During the install process I was asked, if I wanted to install the proprietary Nvidia driver, which I confirmed. So I tried to start Mageia for the first time, but was unable to boot into a graphical DE, it always failed and mageia wanted to search for new hardware(this message was followed by a strange-looking string "need_removing_empty_extended"), and then wanted to reboot because of changes in the driver (in a kind of endless loop). I dicovered the error message about "Nvidia probe routine was not called for 1 device(s)", which was probably caused by nouveau driver getting in the way. Adding the option rdblacklist="nouveau" to the kernel options worked around the issue. Itried to use plain nouveau driver (proprietary Nvidia driver uninstalled) but that didn't work, too.

Maybe this happened due to the relatively rare combination of GTX 960 and the resolution of 1920*1200, but it was a major PITA. I understand that a beta/RC may have some issues, but that was ridiculous. I wasted a few hours with that nonsense. I wondered, if I'm really the only one to run into that issue. I probably should file a bug, but I'm still too annoyed atm.

No need to file an issue, this is already in the errata, check e.g. https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Mageia_5_Err ... d_graphics

I've calmed down a bit, yet I think, this is a serious issue. Please note, that the intel graphics afaict is disabled in my setting (e.g. I don't see it in the device manager in Windows and don't have to install the windows driver for it). I didn't try the optimus stuff, because I thought that the intel graphics is disabled anyways, so why should I use optimus. I did a few superficial tests, but a kernel parameter optimus doesn't seem to work for me, maybe I'd have to install bumblebee, which I don't want to do. The other unpleasant issue is, that the GTX 960 doesn't seem to work (in my configuration) with pure nouveau driver either. That is highly annoying. The average user will be completely lost with such an issue.

this indeed is a major issue. need to get fixed ASAP IMHO.