On 02/20/2012 06:37 PM, Todd And Margo Chester wrote:
On 02/19/2012 11:50 PM, Akemi Yagi wrote:
On Sun, Feb 19, 2012 at 8:14 PM, Todd And Margo Chester
<[email protected]> wrote:
Hi All,
After the upgrade from hell (6.1 --> 6.2) and not being
able to start X11, I found the following:
The nvidia drivers (kmod-nvidia, nvidia-x11-drv) failed to
open my display. So, I had to revert to the Nouveau
(xorg-x11-drv-nouveau) drivers. Which, of course, I
had to install the hard way.
Has anyone got
kmod-nvidia-295.20-1.el6.elrepo.x86_64.rpm
nvidia-x11-drv-295.20-1.el6.elrepo.x86_64.rpm
nvidia-x11-drv-32bit-295.20-1.el6.elrepo.x86_64.rpm
to work on SL6.2 x64 successfully? And, if so, what/how did
you do it?
I have updated my machine from SL 6.1 to 6.2. Absolutely no problem with:
$ rpm -qa | grep nvidia
kmod-nvidia-295.20-1.el6.elrepo.x86_64
nvidia-x11-drv-32bit-295.20-1.el6.elrepo.x86_64
nvidia-x11-drv-295.20-1.el6.elrepo.x86_64
I did not do anything special. Just rebooted the system after the
update and that's all.
Do you have any error message you can show? Like /var/log/Xorg.0.log
when X failed to start?
Akemi
Hi Akemi,
All of my Xorg.x.logs show the "nouveau" driver. I could
not find one that was looking for my nvidia-x11-drv.
I wonder if this thing in my kernel run line has anything
to do with it: nouveau.modeset=0
The nvidia driver has to blacklist the nouveau driver to stop it loading
- if the nouveau driver loads then the nvidia driver can't. If you want
to revert to the nouveau driver then you must remove "nouveau.modeset=0
rdblacklist=nouveau" from the boot line for that kernel in
/boot/grub/grub.conf.
Those parameters were added by the nvidia package - uninstalling the
nvidia package should also remove those lines thus reinstating the
nouveau driver.
If you intend to run the nvidia drivers, try uninstalling and
reinstalling them. Check your xorg.conf is loading the "nvidia" driver.
