[elrepo] nVidia issue on CentOS 7

[Williams, Roy]

Mason,

I'm experiencing the same issues on some a variety of systems. We're
running HP Workstation Z1s with "NVIDIA® Quadro® K3100M" cards and they
seem to be problem children as well exhibiting similar problems.

Roy

On Fri, Oct 2, 2015 at 12:02 AM, Mason Loring Bliss <mason at blisses.org>
wrote:

> Hi, all.
>
> I've installed CentOS 7 on a desktop system that has a GeForce GTX 660. A
> couple things I do on the system will benefit from the nVidia drivers, so I
> added ElRepo and installed kmod-nvidia. On rebooting, I got the blinking
> cursor at the top-left of my screen that seems to be a not-uncommon issue.
> Unfortunately, I can confirm that the package added the right stuff to
> disable Nouveau in GRUB and added the modprobe blacklist file, and I am
> *not*
> on a UEFI system.
>
> I deleted the glamor package and dependencies after seeing the package
> complain, and then for good measure I deleted and re-installed kmod-nvidia,
> but I'm evidently missing something as it's not working.
>
> I'd be grateful for debugging tips.
>
> I haven't tried using nVidia's installer yet, but I'd rather use a DKMS
> package in any event.
>
> Thanks in advance for clues.
>
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