[elrepo] nVidia issue on CentOS 7

[Nicolas Thierry-Mieg]

On 10/02/2015 06:02 AM, Mason Loring Bliss 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.
>

Not sure if it can help, but I have a GTX 660 here working fine with the 
elrepo-provided nvidia driver, although it's running centos 6.

Data that may be useful:

[nthierry at localhost ~]$ rpm -qa | grep nvidia
nvidia-detect-352.41-1.el6.elrepo.x86_64
yum-plugin-nvidia-1.0.2-1.el6.elrepo.noarch
kmod-nvidia-352.41-1.el6.elrepo.x86_64
nvidia-x11-drv-32bit-352.41-1.el6.elrepo.x86_64
nvidia-x11-drv-352.41-1.el6.elrepo.x86_64


$ lspci -vv -s 01:00.0
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GK106 [GeForce GTX 
660] (rev a1) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
<snip>
	Kernel driver in use: nvidia
	Kernel modules: nvidia, nouveau, nvidiafb