Driver problem with Nvidia 7950GTX

[tom_]

so X works as root but complains about authority when started from a user

this is the autority file of my user,
check if your copy of this file has the same rights of mime

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ls -la ~/.Xauthority
-rw------- 1 tom tom 1345 Oct 10 22:07 /home/tom/.Xauthority

if not, digit

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chown yourusername:yourusername ~/.Xauthority
chmod 600 ~/.Xauthority

[Ira_Dosa]

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ls -la ~/.Xauthority
-rw------- 1 tom tom 1345 Oct 10 22:07 /home/tom/.Xauthority

Mine

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[ira@expeter ~]$ ls -la ~/.Xauthority
-rw------- 1 ira ira 113 nov  7  2012 /home/ira/.Xauthority

looks almost identical.

[tom_]

[quote="Ira_Dosa"]

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[ira@expeter ~]$ ls -la ~/.Xauthority
-rw------- 1 arv arv 113 nov  7  2012 /home/ira/.Xauthority

it seems that this file in the ira's home is owned by arv

try as root

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chown ira:ira  /home/ira/.Xauthority

[Ira_Dosa]

it seems that this file in the ira's home is owned by arv

Sorry, typo. Posted from other pc.
Corrected the posted item.

[macnow20]

Driver issue here.
Mageia2, NVIDIA 7950GTX.
nv, nouveau, nvidia only vesa works

Read all errata, wiki, and forum topics.
F3 grub 'xdriver=nvida' doesn't solve the problem either.

Anyone has it working?

Hi Ira_Dosa,

I've got a problem with Mageia 2 and trying to sort it out.

Could you explain me in easy words how to edit grub ? Which grub file is it? Is it grub.lst or some other one? I just do not want to crash my Windows 7 running on different partition...

I'd like to start with editing grub as they advice on errata. If this doesn't work will try something else.

Thanks a lot for help.

[doktor5000]

Hello,

please provide some more details. Which problem do you want to sort out?

The errata only provides information how to change boot options, those are only temporary effective
for one boot, and do not change grub configuration permanently. Better first try those changes out,
to see if they cure your problem or not. But please first tell which problem you want to solve.

[macnow20]

Hello,

please provide some more details. Which problem do you want to sort out?

The errata only provides information how to change boot options, those are only temporary effective
for one boot, and do not change grub configuration permanently. Better first try those changes out,
to see if they cure your problem or not. But please first tell which problem you want to solve.

Hi Doktor 5000! Thanks a lot for replying.

After I was trying to solve the EFI problem with any LInux distribution on my laptop (without success), I tried to install Mageia on my standalone PC. Brief description:

1) Intel PC + Nvidia GT240, running windows 7 deserved finally Linux to be installed. Free space for Linux distribution was 70GB.

2) Have installed Mageia on the free space by autoallocating partitions. During installation, Mageia downloaded 573 (!) upgrades / patches from the internet.

3) I chose auto for the screen resolution and for the video card too.

4) Finished installation. Rebooted PC and noticed that GRUB / booting is working fine - I've got the welcome screen with boot options for Mageia or Win 7.

5) Tryied to start Mageia and after a short while I've got an error "nouveau: GPU lockup - switching to software fbcon".

6) decided to wait a bit if the problem solves but itself and after one minute the error dissepears and starts to be full of colorful stripes across the screen. That's it, doesn't go any further.

I would really appreciate your help if you have some ideas!

One more thing - I can only log in to my Mageia in safe mode - the command prompt starts.

macnow20

[doktor5000]

Well, i've also got a laptop with Intel cpu and GT240M, and i can't really remember this problem.
If in safe mode, you fire up drakx11, select vesa driver and login, then proceed as described in https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Setup_the_graphical_server

[macnow20]

Well, i've also got a laptop with Intel cpu and GT240M, and i can't really remember this problem.
If in safe mode, you fire up drakx11, select vesa driver and login, then proceed as described in https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Setup_the_graphical_server

I understand that drakx11 is some kind of graphical interface ?
Will follow your instrucion first thing in the morning and I'll let you know how it went.

The only thing I'm afraid is to hang up the Win 7 running on the same HDD.

Thanks a lot,

macnow20.

[doktor5000]

drakx11 aka XFdrake is the tool to configure the graphical server, but as most drakxtools it also has
an ncurses frontend (text-based frontend, so it can also be used without a graphical environment running).
This does not change anything at all about bootloader configuration.

[macnow20]

drakx11 aka XFdrake is the tool to configure the graphical server, but as most drakxtools it also has
an ncurses frontend (text-based frontend, so it can also be used without a graphical environment running).
This does not change anything at all about bootloader configuration.

Hi again!

Spent some time on it and:

1) have run drakx11 with success, but there was no GT240 on the list. According to the insctructions from the link provided by You, I chose: "xorg -> nouveau for Nvidia's cards"

2) Still the same error was popping up so I started playing manually with resolutions (before resolution was set up to 'automatic'). I've changed that to 1920x1080 8bp.

3) after reboot I've got now processes starting up (some LSB and Networking processes..) and looking to be in good resolution. I hoped it will boot the system, but ..

4) on the list of processes starting, it stopped @ Plymouth. Error looked like that: "Failed to start Wait for Plymouth Boot Screen to Quit. See 'systemctl status plymouth-quit-wait.service' for details. " And that's it, nothing else happened. I had to reboot the machine at this stage.

Do you want me to provide some screen shots to make it more easy to solve?

macnow20.

[macnow20]

The available graphic cards on the list of drakx11 (NVIDIA ones) were:

NVIDIA GEFORCE 2MX TO GEFORCE 4
NVIDIA GEFORCE 400 SERIES AND LATER
NVIDIA GEFORCE 6100 TO GEFORCE 360
NVIDIA GEFORCE FX SERIES
NVIDIA GEFORCE 3 (XBOX)
NVIDIA RIVA 128
NVIDIA RIVA 128 TNT TO GEFORCE 2

I don't think that my GT240 matches any of the above ones that's why I chose xorg.

macnow20.

[doktor5000]

NVIDIA GEFORCE 6100 TO GEFORCE 360

That is what you want, as this means up to Geforce GT360 ...
But normally the correct model gets preselected when you open up the list of cards, just acknowledge that,
and say yes to the question for the proprietary driver. Otherwise you should better select Xorg vesa driver,
as nouveau also sometimes causes problems.

[macnow20]

Hello doktor5000, thanks for helping again.

Have you seen my previous post as well ? just before list of cards ...

Looks like i've passed through setting up video but - bad luck - came to some other issue with something called Plymouth ...

Will appreciate your help again!

macnow20

[doktor5000]

Actually i've quoted directly from your previous post. Well, i can only advise you again to try failsafe boot, and look again at https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Mageia_2_Err ... rd_drivers (the whole section, the explanation about the procedure for ATI cards for selecting a generic driver applies for nvidia as well).

[macnow20]

I see, but I'm afraid that "Failed to start Wait for Plymouth Boot Screen to Quit. See 'systemctl status plymouth-quit-wait.service' for details" error doesn't apply to the video card anymore ? I think that's some other problem, am I right?

Thanks,

macnow20

[doktor5000]

Well, yes and no. If you use the forum search function, you'll see that it is really common when graphics driver was not selected properly ...