prost Posted October 7, 2011 Report Share Posted October 7, 2011 (edited) I've been using on-board graphics with VESA. I then plugged my nvidia card into the motherboard. I left the monitor connected to the on-board and switched on the PC. It could not reach the login screen. Plugging the monitor into the card, I switched the on-board off in BIOS and I still could not reach the login screen. When I took the card out and tried to install the nvidia software in runlevel 3, it said no card detected and would not continue. It said something about kernel sources. I have kernel-sources, gcc and make installed in Mandriva 2007. Later, I plugged the monitor into the card and when it reached the grub loader, I entered run level one. Then I typed 'login' and logged in. Then I entered root mode, and typed 'mcc' (which was the same as 'drakconf') to enter the Mandriva Control Center in text mode and selected the vesa driver. I left root mode but I couldn't reach the gui by typing 'startx'. 'rpm -q kernel kernel-source' gives: package kernel is not installed package kernel-source is not installed yet in the Mandriva Control Center they are installed. Edited October 9, 2011 by prost Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
prost Posted October 12, 2011 Author Report Share Posted October 12, 2011 I have now installed it. I had to install 'kernel-desktop-devel' first, then it worked. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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