[elrepo] Centos6.4 -- had to uninstall kmod-nvidia

[Phil Perry]

On 28/02/13 10:14, Johan Vermeulen wrote:
> Dear All,
>
> I just reported this on the Centos mailing list, maybe it's useful to
> also share it here:
>
> My laptop is an older MSI, it has a video card:
>
> *-display UNCLAIMED
>            description: VGA compatible controller
>            product: C51 [GeForce Go 6100]
>            vendor: NVIDIA Corporation
>            physical id: 5
>            bus info: pci at 0000:00:05.0
>            version: a2
>            width: 64 bits
>            clock: 66MHz
>            capabilities: vga_controller bus_master cap_list
>            configuration: latency=0
>
> I had kmod-nvidia.i686 installed in order to be able to use an external
> monitor.
>
> I had to uninstall it before I was able to boot into the gui.
>
> greetings, J.
>

Thanks for reporting here too, I might well have missed your posting to 
the CentOS list :-)

Without posting any details like what version of the driver you are 
using, or a copy of your xorg.log file showing the errors it's 
impossible to say or do much other than guess at the problem.

However, I have done my best to test your scenario. The latest NVIDIA 
driver to support your hardware (from elrepo) is kmod-nvidia-304xx, the 
304 series legacy driver (if you are unsure, trying installing and 
running nvidia-detect from elrepo which will advise you of the correct 
driver for your hardware).

I can tell you that this driver works fine with the 6.4 update. There 
was some doubt about whether older drivers would support 6.4 as Xorg 
received an ABI update to 13.1 in the 6.4 release which older display 
drivers might not support. However, I have confirmed that the 304.xx 
legacy drivers and the latest 310.xx series NVIDIA drivers both fully 
support the version of Xorg shipped with 6.4

So, my best guess is that you were maybe running an old version of the 
NVIDIA drivers and needed to update? But as I said above, without any 
further clues to work with I'm really guessing in the dark.