On Sat, Sep 10, 2011 at 12:36:07AM -0500, Kevin Thomas 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
I have a two-year-old Dell laptop, a Latitude E6500. To get the Nvidia driver working on this (single-boot, Scientific Linux 6), I used the elrepo: yum --enablerepo=elrepo install kmod-nvidia nvidia-x11-drv nvidia-x11-drv-32bit Good resource: http://elrepo.org/tiki/kmod-nvidia Best of luck, Barry
