OS won't start after graphics card replacement

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Hello,

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OpenMandriva Lx version:

6.19.0-desktop-1omv2690

Desktop environment (KDE, LXQT…):
KDE

Description of the issue (screenshots if relevant):

I replaced my existing videocard nvidia 1650 with 5060ti and now the OS won’t start, it hangs with “Loading initial ramdisk …”. See the attached screenshot.

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Relevant informations (hardware involved, software version, logs or output…):
This is how my startup command looks like:

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I tried selecting different boot options but they all produce the same result.

Update:

  1. I plugged in the old graphics card
  2. booted
  3. uninstalled nvidia driver with “dnf remove”.
  4. Plugged in the new card
  5. The system booted but only after using display port cable, not hdmi
  6. I installed nvidia driver again from the welcome app
  7. I restarted and now system doesnt boot anymore the same way as in the beginning
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Just for the halibut :fish: have you tried the Nouveau drivers, as a check?

Also, try getting the new drivers directly from Nvidia:

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Hi @SomeDudeInAZ

Sorry, i dont know whats noveau drivers. For my previous card i installed nvidia drivers from welcome app.

I am sorry, but i think you should not release an operating system if it simply does not work.

I tried installing proprietary driver. Now nothing works at all. Both with old and new graphics card. How much I dislike windows, I am installing it back. The level of unreadiness of this distribution is ridiculous. I will try linux mint before installing windows back.

My computer is now essentially a brick.

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Hello,

We may guess from the screenshot you are using ROME but please try to provide as much informations as possible.
See also How to get better results when posting about problems

The first question then coming to mind would be is your system fully updated?
How to update OpenMandriva system

We are sorry that you are encountering such problem.
IMHO we can admit that to deal with nvidia on OpenMandriva might be bit more tricky experience mainly because just a few (if not none) of our developers own nvidia graphic, so basically we have to rely on user’s feedbacks and bug reports.
Among them there are some that did not experience any issue however.

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I also have not that old nvidia RTX 4080 card, for me the best combination is to use nvidia proprietary driver installed via official NVIDIAXXX.run file instead of using welcome-app (packaged one). Try to download installer from nvidia.com, during installation You can choose MIT part of driver, then when installer ask if you need to build 32bit libs, you should agree on. Next question will be if you want to rebuild initramfs - disagree with it. Last question will be if you want to generate example Xorg config file - disagree too. Then reboot and it should work.

Maybe you have some integrated gpu chip to use just for nvidia driver installation? I have one within my Ryzen CPU. So I am connecting monitor to motherboard display port instead of nvidia card. After installation You could switch back monitor to your 5060 card.

This approach (NVIDIAXXX.run) will require You to reinstall this driver each time new kernel version will be updated in OpenMandriva, because new compatible nvidia kernel module needs to be compiled within.