Description of problem: When using MCC to install the nvidia proprietary driver, the RPMs ae installed , he module appears to be created, but the module will not load Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Steps to Reproduce: 1.run the wizard through mcc 2. select nvidia driver 3. restart system; X11 fails Mageia 3-beta2 (updated as of his morning) Kernel 3.8.0-desktop-0.rc5.1.mga3 x86_64 Hardware: Two (yes, two) nvidia 9800GT cards # /sbin/modinfo nvidia-current filename: /lib/modules/3.8.0-desktop-0.rc5.1.mga3/dkms-binary/drivers/char/drm/nvidia-current.ko.xz alias: char-major-195-* version: 310.32 supported: external license: NVIDIA alias: pci:v000010DEd00000E00sv*sd*bc04sc80i00* alias: pci:v000010DEd00000AA3sv*sd*bc0Bsc40i00* alias: pci:v000010DEd*sv*sd*bc03sc02i00* alias: pci:v000010DEd*sv*sd*bc03sc00i00* depends: i2c-core vermagic: 3.8.0-desktop-0.rc5.1.mga3 SMP mod_unload modversions parm: NVreg_Mobile:int parm: NVreg_ResmanDebugLevel:int parm: NVreg_RmLogonRC:int parm: NVreg_ModifyDeviceFiles:int parm: NVreg_DeviceFileUID:int parm: NVreg_DeviceFileGID:int parm: NVreg_DeviceFileMode:int parm: NVreg_RemapLimit:int parm: NVreg_UpdateMemoryTypes:int parm: NVreg_InitializeSystemMemoryAllocations:int parm: NVreg_RMEdgeIntrCheck:int parm: NVreg_UsePageAttributeTable:int parm: NVreg_MapRegistersEarly:int parm: NVreg_RegisterForACPIEvents:int parm: NVreg_CheckPCIConfigSpace:int parm: NVreg_EnablePCIeGen3:int parm: NVreg_EnableMSI:int parm: NVreg_RegistryDwords:cha # update-alternatives --display gl_conf gl_conf - status is manual. link currently points to /etc/nvidia-current/ld.so.conf /etc/ld.so.conf.d/GL/standard.conf - priority 500 slave xorg_extra_modules: /usr/lib64/xorg/xorg-1.6-extra-modules /etc/nvidia-current/ld.so.conf - priority 9700 slave xorg_extra_modules: /usr/lib64/nvidia-current/xorg slave nvidia-debugdump: /usr/lib64/nvidia-current/bin/nvidia-debugdump slave nvidia-smi.1.xz: /usr/share/man/man1/alt-nvidia-current-smi.1.xz slave lib64vdpau_nvidia.so.1: /usr/lib64/nvidia-current/vdpau/libvdpau_nvidia.so.310.32 slave nvidia_settings: /usr/lib64/nvidia-current/bin/nvidia-settings slave libvdpau_nvidia.so.1: /usr/lib/nvidia-current/vdpau/libvdpau_nvidia.so.310.32 slave nvidia_desktop: /usr/share/nvidia-current/mageia-nvidia-settings.desktop slave nvidia_xconfig: /usr/lib64/nvidia-current/bin/nvidia-xconfig slave nvidia.icd: /etc/nvidia-current/nvidia.icd slave display-driver.conf: /etc/nvidia-current/modprobe.conf slave nvidia-settings.xinit: /etc/nvidia-current/nvidia-settings.xinit slave man_nvidiasettings.xz: /usr/share/man/man1/alt-nvidia-current-settings.1.xz slave man_nvidiaxconfig.xz: /usr/share/man/man1/alt-nvidia-current-xconfig.1.xz slave nvidia_bug_report: /usr/lib64/nvidia-current/bin/nvidia-bug-report.sh slave nvidia_smi: /usr/lib64/nvidia-current/bin/nvidia-smi Current `best' version is /etc/nvidia-current/ld.so.conf. # dkms status nvidia-current, 310.32-1.mga3.nonfree, 3.8.0-desktop-0.rc5.1.mga3, x86_64: installed virtualbox, 4.2.6-4.mga3, 3.8.0-desktop-0.rc5.1.mga3, x86_64: installed-binary from 3.8.0-desktop-0.rc5.1.mga3 nvidia-current, 310.32-1.mga3.nonfree, 3.8.0-desktop-0.rc5.1.mga3, x86_64: installed-binary from 3.8.0-desktop-0.rc5.1.mga3 # rpm -qa "*nvidia*" x11-driver-video-nvidia-current-310.32-1.mga3.nonfree nvidia-current-doc-html-310.32-1.mga3.nonfree nvidia-current-kernel-desktop-latest-310.32-2.mga3.nonfree dkms-nvidia-current-310.32-1.mga3.nonfree nvidia-current-kernel-3.8.0-desktop-0.rc5.1.mga3-310.32-2.mga3.nonfree (hwinfo available on request)
Just to see how it might work, I uninstalled all the nvidia RPMs and attempted to install the NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-310.32.run driver from nVidia. It also failed, complaining about the nouveau driver having invoked kernel modesetting from the initrd and refused to install.
CC: (none) => tmb
Created attachment 3462 [details] hwinfo output Only the hwinfo output for my machine in case it is useful.
guess a duplicate *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 8863 ***
Status: NEW => RESOLVEDResolution: (none) => DUPLICATESource RPM: file /usr/lib/modules/3.8.0-desktop-0.rc5.1.mga3/dkms/drivers/char/drm/nvidia-current.ko.xz is not owned by any package => kernel