[elrepo] Dual boot rhel 7.5 - gui not starting

[Akemi Yagi]

On Sat, May 26, 2018 at 2:45 PM, John Adegbile <johnadegbile at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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

> 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.

Did you see any error message while installing the required packages?
No steps missed when configuring it?

Not using it myself, I cannot provide better support than referring
you to what has already been written. There is an instruction note
given by a CentOS user:

https://www.centos.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=49&t=61162&start=10#p266381

It's basically the same except the addition of the last step (10).

Akemi