Hi, Just following up. Does anyone have any ideas of what I can try to get x/gnome working under nvidia drivers?
Thanks On Sun, Jul 8, 2018 at 2:02 PM doug schmidt <douglas.j.schm...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > Trying to get centos7 installed on my laptop (Thinkpad P70). Currently, > windows10 is installed on main sata hdd. I'm installing centos7 to a usb > thumb drive. Once everything is working, I'll reinstall centos on an > external sdd and have dual boot system. The install is fine (well not > really yet) (using centos7 minimal .iso) I'm able to yum update all updates > and upgrade kernel. 3.10.0.862.6.3.el7. I installed gnome desktop. > Currently, the bios graphics is set to hybrid graphics and secure boot is > disabled. gnome was working prior to nvidia driver setup. > > Issues I ran into, initial OS install locked up, I restarted the install, > that completed. > During yum install of updates and kernel the system would freeze every now > and then and then would unfreeze and I was able to input commands again at > the prompt. Searching around about the freezing, I found nouveau might be > the issue and to blacklist it and install nvidia drivers. The install went > good, see attached output, just seems something is not right in the > configuration. I have used nvidia-xconfig for xorg.conf > > I'm having an issue when using startx; screen found, but none have a > usable configuration. In the xorg.2.log output (attached) I'm able to > ctrl+c then get control > back at the prompt. If I set AllowEmptyInitialConfiguration, reboot, > startx it locks up, I'm able to ssh into my laptop then reboot. Even with > nouveau blacklisted and nvidia drivers loaded, the system still freezes > momentarily (10-15 seconds) then I have control at the prompt again. This > freezing happens quite a few times. > > The output in nvidia.driver.txt (attached) should be ok, I just needed to > fix formatting from transferring it from cent -> win. > > Any suggestions/ideas on what I can try to get x/gnome working and also > the > system freezes? > > Thanks > Doug >
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