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vdamiano

Member

Registered: Yesterday

Posts: 2

NVIDIA drivers problem

Hi everyone, I am new to this distribution, just trying it for the first time.
Trying to install it on an old computer: AMD Phenom II 555 with NVIDIA GT710 videocard and 4Gb RAM.
Downloaded "Q4OS Aquarius, Trinity, install-cd - 64bit / x64".
Installed and booted successfully - no problems.
The system suggested my computer is powerful enough to run KDE so I installed KDE.
Installed and booted successfully - no problems.
Videocard was detected and I was asked if I want to install the NVIDIA drivers for it.
Installed successfully and rebooted.
Now the system loads to the KDE login screen, and after entering the password it loops back to the login screen.
Any help?

hchiper

Member

From: Belgium

Registered: 2020-07-28

Posts: 625

Re: NVIDIA drivers problem

Maybe the problem is with uppercase/lowercase characters & digits in your password. Check the Caps lock and Num lock leds.

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Q4OS machine: Samsung R519 - Pentium T4200 2.0 GHz - 4 GB RAM - 500 GB SSD

q4osteam

Q4OS Team

Registered: 2015-12-06

Posts: 5,007

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Re: NVIDIA drivers problem

Welcome
First follow @hchiper advice above please. If the problem turns out to be Nvidia drivers related, switch to the console and run a single command:
$ nvidia-uninstall
follow on screen instructions and reboot.

vdamiano

Member

Registered: Yesterday

Posts: 2

Re: NVIDIA drivers problem

The password is correct. The system starts loading and after a few seconds on a completely black screen it goes back to the login screen.
Will try nvidia-uninstall.

Oconcal

Member

Registered: 2025-06-08

Posts: 38

Re: NVIDIA drivers problem

it could be a permission issue with the cd image.

I know the plasma live version works because I use that with my GT710 nvidia card, but I'll  download all of them and look.

Btw, I did send you email on joining your dev team/mail list @q4osteam.

The 32 bit cd doesn't work. you get a black screen after installing with a mouse cursor. Also you can't switch to the console.

The 64 bit cd trinity needs work as the Kconqueror tries to mount the drive when you try to open it but the Debian Eject's dolphin loads the folder.

Also there are some misconfigured folders like my Documents which should be a link to  /home/username/Documets and it two seperate folders.
Margins are not set correctly in start menu as it cuts off the entries, and the color issue of Darknoir

The plasma image is much better in terms of functionality compared to the trinity. But I installed the plama download image. Will select Plasma download but I would remake seperate DVD image if the other disk image isn't this bad.

Last edited by Oconcal (Today 06:30)

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