On 01/24/2012 01:24 PM, Florian Hubold wrote:
Am 24.01.2012 16:41, schrieb Gary Montalbine:
On 01/24/2012 09:46 AM, Florian Hubold wrote:
Am 24.01.2012 14:32, schrieb Gary Montalbine:
I did a fresh install of Mageia this past weekend. I had been away from
mageia for 5 months because of a printer problem. Colors did not print
correctly in Mageia. Angelo Naselli corrected this and the printer now works.
I have now rejoined the Mageia community and am impressed with the program. I
had an install problem due to my graphics card. I think someone mentioned
they had a problem with their Galaxy card. I am using the galaxy GT430R. The
KDE desktop did not show my icons nor my toolbar. I downloaded galaxy drivers
from nvidia and installed same per their instructions and everything is
working well. This would be very discouraging to someone new to mageia that
is just trying out the program. I was aware of it because I had the problem
with ML. Is it possible to mention someplace that there may be a problem with
galaxy and to see the nvidia site for installation of the card?
Gary
You mean an Nvidia GeForce GT430? Galaxy is only an OEM manufacturer.
This card should be supported by the mageia nvidia drivers, i've got a GT240M
running here without any problems.
What was the particular install problem you encountered?
My purchase order has Galaxy GT430R. The driver is from nvidia and listed as
Geforce 400 series.
The kde desktop had no icons, incomplete toolbar at the bottom. Apparently
the approbriate files in my /home were not used. I also had this problem in
ML2010.2 and found and installed the nvidia driver. Problem corrected. I ran
the nvidia driver in init 3 and then went to kde and everything was restored
and looks good. I had also renamed .kde so I had a fresh kde file. Maybe
this particular card is not supported.
The only reason I mentioned this was because I thought a couple of other
people had remarked about galaxy cards.
Gary
Particular model of the card should not matter. What matters is that you renamed
your ~/.kde4/. I've not heard yet of any problem with galaxy cards, or any of
the nvidia cards which use the 270series drivers (nvidia-current), which covers
basically
anything from Geforce 6100 up to Geforce GT590X.
My thought is that the card is not covered as it happened in ML2010.2
and Mageia. I downloaded the nvidia x86-285.05.09.run. I tend to rename
.kde when I have problems so I am not sure when I did it here.
Gary
