Re: [CentOS] Strange crash after NVidia driver installation from ELRepo

2015-03-03 Thread Valeri Galtsev
On Tue, March 3, 2015 9:41 am, i...@microlinux.fr wrote: Hi, I just had the weirdest of system crashed. Here goes. I wanted to install a desktop step by step, as I usually do. First the base system, then the X Window System, then the WindowMaker window manager. Everything went OK, then I

[CentOS] Strange crash after NVidia driver installation from ELRepo

2015-03-03 Thread info
Hi, I just had the weirdest of system crashed. Here goes. I wanted to install a desktop step by step, as I usually do. First the base system, then the X Window System, then the WindowMaker window manager. Everything went OK, then I installed kmod-nvidia from ELRepo. Yum informed me that the

Re: [CentOS] Strange crash after NVidia driver installation from ELRepo

2015-03-03 Thread Steve Thompson
On Tue, 3 Mar 2015, i...@microlinux.fr wrote: Any suggestions? There are multiple nvidia drivers in Elrepo, depending on the model of video card. Install and run nvidia-detect to find out which driver you need; just installing the kmod-nvidia package is not guaranteed to give you a working

Re: [CentOS] Strange crash after NVidia driver installation from ELRepo

2015-03-03 Thread info
Le 03.03.2015 17:00, Steve Thompson a écrit : On Tue, 3 Mar 2015, i...@microlinux.fr wrote: Any suggestions? There are multiple nvidia drivers in Elrepo, depending on the model of video card. Install and run nvidia-detect to find out which driver you need; just installing the kmod-nvidia

Re: [CentOS] Strange crash after NVidia driver installation from ELRepo

2015-03-03 Thread Ned Slider
On 03/03/15 18:47, Niki Kovacs wrote: Le 03/03/2015 19:25, Jonathan Billings a écrit : One of the things that the nvidia driver adds is nouveau.modeset=0 rdblacklist=nouveau to the kernel arguments. Do you see them? I know that we saw the kernel panic when the nouveau driver was loaded

Re: [CentOS] Strange crash after NVidia driver installation from ELRepo

2015-03-03 Thread Jonathan Billings
On Tue, Mar 03, 2015 at 04:41:01PM +0100, i...@microlinux.fr wrote: Anyway, I rebooted, and then... nothing. System refused even to startup, and systemd suggested to me that I open journalctl (which taught me nothing). This doesn't make any sense. You said 'nothing' but it also suggested you

Re: [CentOS] Strange crash after NVidia driver installation from ELRepo

2015-03-03 Thread Niki Kovacs
Le 03/03/2015 18:45, Scott Robbins a écrit : This might have to do with the NVidia update, explained on the elrepo pages. http://elrepo.org/tiki/kmod-nvidia You may have an older card that will require the 340xx versions of the various NVidia tools. No, it's a GT520 which is supposed to

Re: [CentOS] Strange crash after NVidia driver installation from ELRepo

2015-03-03 Thread Niki Kovacs
Le 03/03/2015 19:25, Jonathan Billings a écrit : One of the things that the nvidia driver adds is nouveau.modeset=0 rdblacklist=nouveau to the kernel arguments. Do you see them? I know that we saw the kernel panic when the nouveau driver was loaded on a el6.6 system with an NVidia K620, so

Re: [CentOS] Strange crash after NVidia driver installation from ELRepo

2015-03-03 Thread m . roth
i...@microlinux.fr wrote: I just had the weirdest of system crashed. Here goes. I wanted to install a desktop step by step, as I usually do. First the base system, then the X Window System, then the WindowMaker window manager. Everything went OK, then I installed kmod-nvidia from ELRepo.

Re: [CentOS] Strange crash after NVidia driver installation from ELRepo

2015-03-03 Thread Scott Robbins
On Tue, Mar 03, 2015 at 05:08:10PM +0100, i...@microlinux.fr wrote: Le 03.03.2015 17:00, Steve Thompson a écrit : On Tue, 3 Mar 2015, i...@microlinux.fr wrote: Any suggestions? There are multiple nvidia drivers in Elrepo, depending on the model of video card. Install and run nvidia-detect