How to recover graphic login? reset/re-do graphics? (Mga7)
Posted: Mar 24th, '21, 14:54
Running Mageia 7 on a PC with latest updates.
During a recent system update the graphics system was being updated but /boot/ filled 100% (I think it was updating Nvidia drivers or kernel modules).
After several attempts to reboot situation is: boot process does not seem to start the graphical login as before.
System is actually up and running but no login screen.
I can ssh into from a 2nd machine and have applied all the most recent updates available.
Question: how do I re-do or reset the Nvidia drivers update to get the graphical login back?
Alternatively, how to change to not use any additional Nvidia graphics card support - so back to simple graphics?
Environment: Mageia 7 running kernel 5.10.25-desktop-1.mga7
I could re-install but if there is a smarter way to recover then I would like to learn and understand how to do that.
During a recent system update the graphics system was being updated but /boot/ filled 100% (I think it was updating Nvidia drivers or kernel modules).
After several attempts to reboot situation is: boot process does not seem to start the graphical login as before.
System is actually up and running but no login screen.
I can ssh into from a 2nd machine and have applied all the most recent updates available.
Question: how do I re-do or reset the Nvidia drivers update to get the graphical login back?
Alternatively, how to change to not use any additional Nvidia graphics card support - so back to simple graphics?
Environment: Mageia 7 running kernel 5.10.25-desktop-1.mga7
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# lspci | grep -ie nvidia
28:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GP107 [GeForce GTX 1050 Ti] (rev a1)
28:00.1 Audio device: NVIDIA Corporation GP107GL High Definition Audio Controller (rev a1)
$ df /boot/
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda5 484M 271M 184M 60% /boot
I could re-install but if there is a smarter way to recover then I would like to learn and understand how to do that.