[elrepo] Dual boot rhel 7.5 - gui not starting

[John Adegbile]

Thanks for the tip.

I installed and configured bumblebee (using primus as an alternative to
optirun). I followed the instructions and machine now hangs when I get to:
[OK] Started GNOME display Manager.
[OK] Started Virtualization daemon.



On Sat, 26 May 2018 at 01:13, Akemi Yagi <amyagi at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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
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