This is day 5 of messing around with Mandrake 10.1 Community that I was upgrading up to Mandriva LE because of the issue I had with kopete.

I did the update as everyone recommended, but it boots up tp a semi black screen with Linux Limited addition on the bottom right corner of screen and I have to login with graphical format.

It calls for:
Mandrakelinux release 10.2 LE
Kernel 2.6.11-6 on ........tty1
localhost login ---
login
password
stan@ local host ]$


I enter my user name and password, but from this point on I am lost. My Nvidia splash screen does not come up and I assume this is the problem. Where do I go from here, can anyone lend a hand?

d-1

Try doing "startx" when you have entered your username and password. Also search in the Mandrake forum for a possible solution because a few other people have had the same problem after doing upgrades.

I entered startx and it says fatal module Nvidia driver not found, failed to load the kernel module ****aborting***** Screens found, but none have usable configuation.

Anyone know what to do?

d-1

Did you uprade your kernel? If you have you will have to reinstall your nvidia driver.

I do not believe I did. I just did an upgrade of Mandriva without formatting like someone suggested.

How do I install it from the command line if possible?

d-1

If you upgraded from one version of Mandriva to another, most likely your kernel was upgraded. To reinstall the nvidia driver[list=1][*]switch to root and do "init 3" (you may get a prompt to login again)[*]change to the directory where you downloaded the nvidia drivers e.g.
[*]#./NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-7174-pkg1.run[*]#do "init 5" when the drivers have been installed to login graphically.[/list=1]
If you don't haven't downloaded the drivers, you can edit /etc/X11/xorg.conf to use the nv driver and then you can "startx" and then download them and install using the instructions above.

Thanks reddazz, what I did (before I read this post late last night) was I reinstalled Mandriva LE and just formated hda6 and Nvidia splash screen comes up now. Now I have to reinstall a lot of things I had before. i.e. Netscape, Java and so forth.

Question? I went to easy urpmi website but there is nothing there for Mandriva LE or Mandrake 10.2, does that mean we can't have easy urpmi?

d-1

Easyurpmi has the Mandriva 2005LE repositories listed as just 2005, so yeah you can still use them to install packages on your system.

Just a side note d-1....they finally got around to releasing the 10.1 kdenetwork updates today. Kind of a bummer but on the bright side I'm finding 2005 LE to be much better than 10.1. Once you get your issues worked out, I think you'll be happy.

Well get this abrooks after reinstalling Mandriva or actually updating it from Mandrake 10.1 Community. Kopete still will not work.

d-1

If you are using the community version, point your urpmi repositories to 10.1 official because I am sure that support and updates for community stop when the official version is released (correct me if I am wrong). As for kopete, the msn protocol changed and the KDE devs issued a fix a few days ago, so maybe Mandriva has not yet incorporated this fix into their updates.

With Mandriva now installed I uninstalled kopete with MCC and did a urpmi kopete reinstall and it fixed kopete. I had to uninstall everything associated with kopete.

d-1