OpenMandrivaLx Rome hangs after update (08-12-2025)

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@n1ckla

Here’s my hypothesis. My NVidia card is GTX 1050 Ti. Doing some research, NVidia just drop the support for it in the v590 branch of their drivers recently.

We have seen this with the 960, as well. It’s probably the case.

@n1ckla

Could you please reconsider? I don’t think the problem lies in “nvidia drivers are broken”. If it did, I’d think you have much more report of it. The problem is NVidia is notorious in dropping support for older cards. This is Win 10 end-of-life problem all over again, chucking out still perfectly working hardware to upgrade to Win 11.

No. Their drivers are proprietary for those cards and they have already stated they will not backport fixes to newer kernels. It has been explained here:

Nvidia Open kernel module (Call for testing, ROME or Cooker)

Since the availability of the Open Source Linux kernel driver for nvidia, we have been interested in how it would work in OMLx, but have not had compatible cards to test it with. Based on recent guidance from the company, they will be suggesting this Open driver be the default: They did not include the compatible cards in this article, but the list is here: We package two versions of the proprietary and open drivers, one built with the installed kernel, and one with dkms. The latter is rec…

@n1ckla

I did see nvidia-legacy package in the repo that is nvidia drivers v470x, but seems unmaintained because it is compiled for kernel v6.7.1. Why don’t support/maintain those, so people with legacy cards could use them?

Because nvidia does not support those drivers being built on newer kernels. So, neither can we.

@n1ckla

May I suggest at the very least, give warning and notifications about possible breaking changes when Nvidia driver updates, cos NVidia is notorious in dropping support.

I do hope there’s the last nvidia driver version still cached somewhere, as this problem with nvidia drivers is new.

This is a topic we have covered at great length in all of our communication platforms. It is why the nvidia drivers are in the non-free repository:

1. We provide it as a convenience for users, and supporting hardware and troubleshooting will ultimately be up to the user and the vendor. The driver is closed source.
2. We cannot guarantee the driver will work for everyone, or be available to everyone forever. Please see # 1 for clarification.
3. Nothing stops a user from downloading the driver from nvidia directly and not using the package we provide at all. Especially in scenarios where the driver is considered “Legacy”. We will not be able to make the resulting driver you build work with the kernel if nvidia has pulled the rug out.

@n1ckla

sudo dnf rm nvidia: This removes the nvidia drivers, as well removes these parameters nouveau.modeset=0 nvidia-drm.modeset=1 nvidia-drm.fbdev=1 from the grub menu entry. The system boots fine.

This is honestly going to be the best long term solution unless you buy a non-nvidia graphics card.