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

[Phil Perry]

On 28/02/13 12:33, Johan Vermeulen wrote:
>
> 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.


You're welcome - glad you got it sorted.