[elrepo] Gnome black windows in Centos 7.6 after installing nvidia driver + bumblebee

[vychytraly]

Hello Juan, I recommend using Nvidia Prime setup instead of bumblebee, in
my experience it is much less error prone.

On Sun, Dec 9, 2018 at 8:42 AM Juan Fumero <jjfumero at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi all,
>    I recently updated from CentOS 7.5 to CentOS 7.6, and, when I reboot
> all gnome Windows become black when I open them. I also did a fresh install
> and I get the same problem, only after installing the NVIDIA drivers and
> Bumblebee.
>
> I have a laptop DELL XPS 15 with an NVIDIA GTX 1050M. I did not have any
> of these problems with CentOS 7.5 or Centos 7.4. It also happens with a
> fresh install (CentOS 7.6) after installing the nvidia drivers and optirun.
>
> I am following the documentation here [1, 2] to install the GPU drivers
> and then the bumblebee and primus.
> [1] http://elrepo.org/tiki/tiki-index.php
> [2] https://elrepo.org/tiki/bumblebee
>
> As I mentioned, these instructions worked really well for CentOS 7.4 and
> CenOS 7.5 but now I  cannot see any window in Gnome (the content of each
> windows is all black). If I install KDE, everything works fine. Please, any
> pointers will be appreciated. Is this bug? Any ideas of how I can continue
> using Gnome without these problems?
>
> I suppose I could install CentOS 7.5, but I do not know how to prevent
> updates of CentOS 7.6.
>
> Thanks,
> Juan
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