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

[Phil Perry]

Thanks for replying John.

It certainly sounds like this is a bug you need to take up with NVIDIA 
rather than any inherent issue with our packaging of the NVIDIA drivers.

Phil

On 10/05/13 09:35, John Adegbile wrote:
> 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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