[elrepo] Dual boot rhel 7.5 - gui not starting

[John Adegbile]

Thanks for that. I will scrutinise the logs for any clues.

On Tue, 29 May 2018 at 09:58, Akemi Yagi <amyagi at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sat, May 26, 2018 at 4:40 PM, Akemi Yagi <amyagi at gmail.com> wrote:
> > 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
>
> I'm copying a message from Nicolas Thierry-Mieg below. Hope this helps
> you figure out why things are not working.
>
> Akemi
>
> "you might have some useful info in /var/log/Xorg.*
>
> I had set up bumblebee on my son's laptop in the past and had to move
> some things around, because [some reason, can't remember the details
> but it was something like X not looking in the correct folders for the
> 2 cards]. Carefully reading through the Xorg.* logfiles had allowed me
> to find the source problem. I can look it up one of these evenings if
> needed."
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