Latest nvidia driver on Mageia 4?

[Ringo]

Hello, I'm interested in using Mageia as one and only operating system on my PC, I gaved it a spin on Virtualbox and it worked great it's smooth it got some updated packages including systemd etc. but the only show stopper is that I got fairly modern hardware including Geforce GTX 750 ti card which is not supported by nvidia driver available in Mageia 4. To make this card work I need at least nvidia 334.21 (latest is 337.12 beta), is there any rpm's or custom repository with such version of gfx drivers? How can I install them properly? Or there is nothing can be done, and I need to wait months for next release?

Regards

[wintpe]

last i checked, when i needed to do precisly this (MGA 2 at the time)

I download and install the driver from nvidia directly.

to do this put the graphics into vesa driver by default and remove the mga supplied nvidia one.

run init 3 or boot it level 3

run the nvidia installer outside of X11 running.

it will edit your Xorg.conf for you if you let it.


requires the same prereqs as the mageia one.

regards peter

[Ringo]

Unfortunately I think your information is outdated, cause Mageia is not using traditional init system it uses systemd, is there any howto on doing this fairly easy with Mageia 4?

[Latte]

well, init 3 is still working in Mageia 4.

However you can use

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systemctl isolate multi-user.target

instead as well (found here: http://dynacont.net/documentation/linux ... _commands/ --> 'How do I change the runlevel?')

[wintpe]

Thanks, Latte,

[doktor5000]

Actually, there are wrapper functions in place for all the traditional commands: service, chkconfig, init, shutdown, reboot ...

[jiml8]

I routinely download and install the nvidia driver from nvidia. I am presently running 331.49 on Mageia4 64 bit. I've been doing this since the early days of Mandrake.

Just download the driver, then log out of your graphical session. Ctrl-Alt-Fn to a console window, log in as root. Issue a "service dm stop" which stops the display manager.

Then chmod +x the Nvidia packaged download, and execute it. Answer the questions it asks, and it will handle all the rest. When it is finished installing, a "service dm start" restarts the display manager, and away you go.

I realize there is a journalctl way to do this, which is the right way, but that command is both verbose and (IMO) annoying in its syntax. The service command now invokes journalctl and is much more compact to use.

[doktor5000]

I realize there is a journalctl way to do this, which is the right way, but that command is both verbose and (IMO) annoying in its syntax. The service command now invokes journalctl and is much more compact to use.

Not journalctl but systemctl you mean probably
Also you can still run init 3 if you like that better ...

For the nvidia driver, I'd probably use http://onse.fi/nvidia-mgabuild/ instead of using the installer directly.