[Mageia-dev] NVidia fallback to Nouveau after latest Kernel updates

[Bertaux Xavier]

yes and last night after installing the new kernel 3.3.0rc,
dkms fails to build dkms-nvidia for this kernel.

Cheers
Xavier

Le 06/03/2012 10:45, Robert Fox a écrit :
> This was fixed once, but since the latest kernel updates (3.3.0) - the problem has returned:
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> Since last Cauldron kernel update, I have two nvidia based system which
> now fallback to nouveau when starting X - stating nvidia cannot be
> loaded.
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> checking in dmesg - I see that the nouveau driver grabs the card before
> the nvidia driver can - but trying to remove the nouveau driver wants to
> remove over 800 packages!
>
> How can I get the nvidia proprietary driver back??
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> Thx,
> R.Fox
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