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

[Juan Fumero]

Thanks for the suggestion. Is there any documentation about the
installation of Nvidia prime on CentOS 7? Is this with elrepo repositories?

Thanks,
Juan

On Sun, Dec 9, 2018 at 12:40 PM vychytraly <vychytraly at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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