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

[Ljubomir Ljubojevic]

On 02/28/2013 12:25 PM, Phil Perry wrote:
> 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.
>

I think he updated kmod-nvidia ver 304 to kmod-nvidia 310 which does not 
support older chipsets. He can use nvidia-detect to check, and most 
likely to uninstall kmod-nvidia and install kmod-nvidia-304xx rpm.