Today I plugged in a flash memory stick which shows up in the 'Places"
panel in Dolphin under removable devices
Much later I right clicked on the entry and from the menu selected what
I read to say as "Sadly Remove" rather than safely remove
Senior's moment
It did lighten my day considerably :-)
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Running KDE on x86_64 5.15.126-desktop-1.mga8
Mageia release 8
Today I plugged in a flash memory stick which shows up in the 'Places"
panel in Dolphin under removable devices
Much later I right clicked on the entry and from the menu selected
what I read to say as "Sadly Remove" rather than safely remove
Senior's moment
It did lighten my day considerably :-)
--
Running KDE on x86_64 5.15.126-desktop-1.mga8
Mageia release 8
There again if you are trying to run v9 that would be tricky based on my upgrade attempt - luckily using another partition (from production) as an experimental upgrade that fails to fully boot up - possibly something to do with my graphic card a old Nvidia chip based product.
Will who ever deals with such matters at Mageia sort out usage of the
nvidia drivers etc and no I do not reallly wish to the the O/S version if
I can avoid it.
That said I have no idea of how to get around the boot failure and update
the system with latest updates to see if it resolves the issue.
Just as well as I used a test partition that had v8 on it.
Seem to recall having an issue booting when going from v7 -> v8 but there again my memory is not as good as it used to be 🙁
Vincent
Running KDE on x86_64 5.15.126-desktop-1.mga8
Mageia release 8
If you pull it out of the socket while it is mounted
then you will have "Sadly Removed" it and you may be very sorry.
I know I have been very Sad when I did that.
For someone who hates loss of data I am very good at that.
bliss - Dell Precision 7730- PCLOS 2023.11- Linux 6.5.13- Plasma 5.27.9
There again if you are trying to run v9 that would be tricky based on my upgrade attempt - luckily using another partition (from production) as an experimental upgrade that fails to fully boot up - possibly something to do with my graphic card a old Nvidia chip based product.
Just as well as I used a test partition that had v8 on it.
Seem to recall having an issue booting when going from v7 -> v8 but there again my memory is not as good as it used to be :(
On 2023-12-01 00:21, faeychild wrote:
Running KDE on x86_64 5.15.126-desktop-1.mga8
Mageia release 8
Just so you know, except for a few loose ends support for Mageia 8 officially ended yesterday.
Time to move on to Mageia 9.
On 2023-12-01 11:47, Vincent Coen wrote:
There again if you are trying to run v9 that would be tricky based
on my upgrade attempt - luckily using another partition (from
production) as an experimental upgrade that fails to fully boot up -
possibly something to do with my graphic card a old Nvidia chip
based product.
Will who ever deals with such matters at Mageia sort out usage of
the nvidia drivers etc and no I do not reallly wish to the the O/S
version if I can avoid it.
That said I have no idea of how to get around the boot failure and
update the system with latest updates to see if it resolves the
issue.
Just as well as I used a test partition that had v8 on it.
Seem to recall having an issue booting when going from v7 -> v8 but
there again my memory is not as good as it used to be 🙁
Vincent
You didn't mention which "old Nvidia chip" you are using.
Sadly, if it's a chip that requires a proprietary driver lower than nvidia470, Nvidia has chosen not to support it any longer, so it will
not build with the M9 kernels. That means Mageia won't be supporting
it, either.
Your choices are limited:
1. Use the open source nouveau driver.
2. Buy a newer Nvidia card.
3. Switch to an AMD gpu. AMD is much better these days at supporting
the open-source Linux drivers than Nvi
Identification
Vendor: NVIDIA Corporation
Description: GF119 [GeForce GT 610]
Media class: VGA compatible controller
Connection
Bus: PCI Express
PCI domain: 0
Bus PCI #: 1
PCI device #: 0
PCI function #: 0
PCI revision: 0xa1
Vendor ID: 0x10de
Device ID: 0x104a
Sub vendor ID: 0x1043
Sub device ID: 0x8411
Misc
Module: Card:NVIDIA GeForce 420 to GeForce 630
-- Does this help ?
how do I change it when the boot fails?
that I am running AMD FX8350 8(?) core that is at least 10 years old and
as I am now 76 I thought it would see me out. Vincent
On 2023-12-04 15:42, Vincent Coen wrote:
Identification
Vendor: NVIDIA Corporation
Description: GF119 [GeForce GT 610]
Media class: VGA compatible controller
Connection
Bus: PCI Express
PCI domain: 0
Bus PCI #: 1
PCI device #: 0
PCI function #: 0
PCI revision: 0xa1
Vendor ID: 0x10de
Device ID: 0x104a
Sub vendor ID: 0x1043
Sub device ID: 0x8411
Misc
Module: Card:NVIDIA GeForce 420 to GeForce 630
-- Does this help ?
The 470 module is the module for GeForce 635 to Geforce 920 cards, so
yours isn't covered by the proprietary drivers. You would have to use nouveau.
If I have then I guess I have to BUT
how do I change it when the boot fails?
If using grub2: select the "Advanced" option, and from there use the "recovery" option. When prompted, enter the root password to log on in
text mode as root. Then use the command "XFdrake" to select your
graphics card. That should do it, but you might have to play with it
a little.
Problem for switching cards is
that I am running AMD FX8350 8(?) core that is at least 10 years old
and as I am now 76 I thought it would see me out. Vincent
I just bought a used Quadro K620 card on ebay for $20US, not because
of any real need for it, but so I could test updates of the current
nvidia drivers for Mageia QA. That particular model is supposed to
work with any of the three Proprietary nvidia drivers currently
supported in Mageia. There were more of them available there when I
looked.
BTW, I'm 74.
TJ
That said I might still buying a replacement nvidia card as you suggest but may be a later one but still cheapish as a 2nd hard one - Any suggestions
as to what one ?
On 2023-12-06 19:03, Vincent Coen wrote:
That said I might still buying a replacement nvidia card as you
suggest but
may be a later one but still cheapish as a 2nd hard one - Any suggestions
as to what one ?
I dropped all things nvidia a few years ago when nvidia dropped support
for my perfectly good card, much as what's happening with you. My needs
are modest, and I filled them perfectly well with on-board Intel or
older AMD gpus. Consequently, my knowledge of the best nvidia gpu to buy is... limited.
On 8/12/23 14:17, TJ wrote:
On 2023-12-06 19:03, Vincent Coen wrote:
That said I might still buying a replacement nvidia card as you
suggest but
may be a later one but still cheapish as a 2nd hard one - Any
suggestions
as to what one ?
I dropped all things nvidia a few years ago when nvidia dropped
support for my perfectly good card, much as what's happening with you.
My needs are modest, and I filled them perfectly well with on-board
Intel or older AMD gpus. Consequently, my knowledge of the best nvidia
gpu to buy is... limited.
If I ever need a new motherboard I will dump the graphics card shuffle
and use the on board graphics. Nvidia's dwindling support may be accelerating their demise.
Look what happened to the NIC card and the soundblaster, both dinosaurs
That's what people with laptops have to do, since most must use the
onboard graphics. But be careful with your purchase that you don't get something with an onboard nvidia gpu. They do exist - especially
laptops. I know of some Mageia users who specifically ordered computers
with Nvidia gpus, because they needed them for one reason or another -
and now Nvidia left them out in the cold.
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