[elrepo] Nvidia GeForce GTX675m - No login screen after upgrading to Centos6.4/kmod-nvidia-310.44

[John Adegbile]

Hi Phil,

I tried 319.17 but I had the same issue so I reverted back to 310.40

John


On Thu, May 9, 2013 at 9:05 PM, Phil Perry <phil at elrepo.org> wrote:

> At least you appear to have isolated the issue.
>
> The 310.44 release only (to the best of my knowledge) fixed a security
> issue:
>
> http://nvidia.custhelp.com/**app/answers/detail/a_id/3290<http://nvidia.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/3290>
>
> so it seems somewhat strange that it appears to have introduced a bug for
> you.
>
> If nothing in the above announcement rings any bells with you then I would
> suggest this is an issue you need to follow up with the folks an NVIDIA.
>
> BTW, I've just released the latest 319.17 drivers to the elrepo
> repository. You might like to give those a try and see if they work (or
> not) for you.
>
> Phil
>
> On 09/05/13 20:39, John Adegbile wrote:
>
>> I uninstalled kmod-nvidia-310.44-1 and installed kmod-nvidia-310.*40
>> *instead
>>
>> and I can now get to X.
>>
>>
>> On Thu, May 9, 2013 at 8:19 PM, John Adegbile <johnadegbile at gmail.com
>> >wrote:
>>
>>  I don't think the issue is memory/disk related. The symptoms I've seen
>>> point towards an issue with kmod-nvidia/Centos 64/my nvidia card (GeForce
>>> GTX675m). If I insert my last good backup disc ( Centos6.3 /
>>> 2.6.32-279.22.1.el6.x86_64), I get to X every time.
>>>
>>> Currently with kmod-nvidia-310.44-1/2.6.32-**358.6.1.el6.x86_64, I
>>> consistently do not get to to X.
>>>
>>> After booting to runlevel 3, I've tried running "startx", but the screen
>>> just hangs. Nothing is written to Xorg.0.log. The only indication of an
>>> issue is in the  syslog:
>>> ...
>>> nvidia: module license 'NVIDIA' taints kernel
>>> loading NVIDIA UNIX x86_64 Kernel Module  310.44  Wed Mar 27 14:51:30 PDT
>>> 2013
>>> ...
>>>
>>>
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