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

[Juan Fumero]

Great, thanks a lot, I can confirm it works with NVIDIA drivers from el
repo and the NVIDIA Prime setup on Centos 7.6.

Regards,
Juan

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

> 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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