On 09/10/2011 04:49 PM, Andrew Z wrote:
Try switching to other consoles once it hangs on atd. (Alt-f2, etc).
Let us know
Andrew
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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
info
rmed 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
Some good info over at the archlinux forums:
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=881549
http://linux-hybrid-graphics.blogspot.com/
To test the nvidia driver: blacklist the nouveau and intel graphic
modules, disable kernel mode-setting, and boot to runlevel 3 (all via
the kernel command line args below). Then run nvidia's xorg creation
tool (nvidia-xconfig). Give X a try and see if it works.
nouveau.disable=1 intel.disable=1 nomodeset 3 <--append this to grub
kernel line
If that wont work, black list nouveau and nvidia, and try the intel
module (delete the xorg.conf made by nvidia-xconfig)
nouveau.disable=1 nomodeset 3 <-- append this to grub kernel line
Hope that helps.
Chris
