[elrepo] Dual boot rhel 7.5 - gui not starting

[Akemi Yagi]

On Fri, May 25, 2018 at 7:20 PM, John Adegbile <johnadegbile at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am struggling a bit to get a GUI installation completed on my MSI GS63VR
> laptop. It comes with windows 10 and I have dual booted with RHEL 7.5 . I
> have completed the rhel installation and have installed the nvidia drivers
> from elrepo.
>
> I can't get the GUI to work though. Would someone kindly be able to give me
> some pointers as to where I'm going wrong? I have enabled default
> graphical.target via systemctl but the GUI does not launch. The error I get
> when I attempt to run startx manually is:
>
> [  1740.462] (EE) Screen(s) found, but none have a usable configuration.
> Fatal server error:
> [  1740.462] (EE) no screens found(EE)
> [  1740.463] (EE)
>
> Output of lspci is:
> 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Device 591b (rev 04)
> 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GP106M [GeForce GTX
> 1060 Mobile] (rev a1)
>
> Output of nvidia-detect is:
> Probing for supported NVIDIA devices...
> [10de:1c20] NVIDIA Corporation GP106M [GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile]
> This device requires the current 390.59 NVIDIA driver kmod-nvidia
> [8086:591b] Intel Corporation Device 591b
>
>
> RPMs installed:
> nvidia-x11-drv-390.59-1.el7_5.elrepo.x86_64
> yum-plugin-nvidia-1.0.2-1.el7.elrepo.noarch
> kmod-nvidia-390.59-1.el7_5.elrepo.x86_64
> nvidia-detect-390.59-1.el7.elrepo.x86_64
>
>
> uname -a:
> 3.10.0-862.3.2.el7.x86_64
>
>
> Thanks in advance
>
> J

You seem to have two graphics devices, an integrated graphics (Intel)
and an Nvidia card. Can you disable the former in the BIOS? If this is
not possible, you need to make use of the Nvidia Optimus technology.
For detailed instructions, please see the bumblebee wiki page at:

http://elrepo.org/tiki/bumblebee

Akemi