[SOLVED] System defaults to nouveau driver after update

[onlooker]

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:


[claire]

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

[onlooker]

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


[claire]

Do you have nonfree media enabled?

Nonfree Release & Nonfree Updates

[onlooker]

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!

[claire]

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

[claire]

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

[onlooker]

Done and thanks again!