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

[vychytraly]

As far is I know it works with every nvidia drivers, including the ones in
elrepo

On Tue, Dec 11, 2018 at 12:04 AM vychytraly <vychytraly at gmail.com> wrote:

> Here is the documentation:
>
>
> https://devtalk.nvidia.com/default/topic/957814/linux/prime-and-prime-synchronization/
>
> On Sun, Dec 9, 2018 at 1:47 PM Juan Fumero <jjfumero at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> 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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