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

[Johan Vermeulen]

Op 28-02-13 13:17, Ljubomir Ljubojevic schreef:
> 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.
>
>

Hello,

reinstalling kmod-nvidia-304xx solved the issue. I'm now running 
Centos6.4 with package kmod-nvidia-304xx.

and I tried nvidia--detect as well:

-bash-4.1# nvidia-detect
Probing for supported NVIDIA devices...
Found: [10de:0247] NVIDIA Corporation C51 [GeForce Go 6100]
This device requires the NVIDIA legacy 304.xx driver (kmod-nvidia-304xx).

Thanks for helping me out.

Greetings, J.