On Fri, Sep 9, 2011 at 10:36 PM, Kevin Thomas <[email protected]> wrote: > Ok, I jujst got a brand new Dell XPS laptop a few days ago. I managed to > install Windows 7 and SL 6.1 side by side in a dual boot setup. This laptop > has the core i7 processor, which means it has integrated Intel HD 3000 > graphics, but it also has a 2GB Nvidia GT540M (with optimus) discrete card > as well. I know that optimus is not natively supported yet, but according > to the SL forums, the generic nvidia driver can be installed instead > (kmod-nvidia). The instructions said to just do "yum install kmod-nvidia". > This installed the drivers for me and when I rebooted, I saw the > plymouth-rings splash screen for the first time ever, but the system hung. > I restarted again and pushed ESC to see the messages and the screen > flickered a few times and it stopped on "registering binary handler for > windows applications" Some googling informed me that this was due to the > wine service being enabled, so I disabled it and restarted. This time, it > got hung on "starting atd:" and the screen flickered a few times. I have a > feeling that if I disabled atd, it would just hang on the next service. I > had to uninstall the kmod-nvidia package just to boot my system again. > There has to be a way to get the nvidia driver working. Any help would be > appreciated. > > Kevin
You might want to search through the Nvidia forum site. I see some issue reports there. You can google with something like "site:forums.nvidia.com dell xps laptop". Akemi
