2013/1/29 Thomas Backlund <t...@mageia.org>: > Wolfgang Bornath skrev 29.1.2013 10:26: > >> Installed MGA3 Beta2 including proprietary nvidia driver, working nicely. >> >> After doing updates including kernel 3.8.0-desktop-0.rc5.1.mga3 the >> startup process stopped and showed a message that a display driver >> module is loaded which conflicts with the current setup (translation >> from German) and so x server may not start correctly. And so it was: >> after "Started LSB: Nameserver information manager" the start process >> hangs. Switching to VT2 and logging in, giviong the command 'startx' >> fails: >> >> modprobe: ERROR: could not insert 'nvidia_current': No such device >> modprobe: ERROR: Error running install command for nvidia >> modprobe: ERROR: could not insert 'nvidia'; Operation not permitted >> (EE) Server termibnated with error (1) >> xinit: giving up >> xinit: unable to connect to X server: Connection refused >> xinit: server error >> >> That's it. >> > > Seems nouveau blacklisting is being ignored :/ > So it blocks the nvidia driver from loading properly > > https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8863
Yes, bug report describes exactly what's happening here (in better English). I added 64-bit platform. -- wobo