nVidia Corporation GF106 [GeForce GT 555M] won't install
Posted: 2012/02/17 07:17:39
Good Morning Community,
as promised, here I am again. I have been trying to install the nvidia drivers for my graphics card, however, failed miserably. But before I start, the obligartory pastebin:
[url=http://pastebin.centos.org/38397]Pastebin ./getinfo.sh[/url]
this is the lspci -nn output for 01:00 (vga)
[code]01:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: nVidia Corporation GF106 [GeForce GT 555M] [10de:0dcd] (rev a1)[/code]
I went to Nvidias website and downloaded the following driver (as kmod-nvidia didnt work for me) to download
[code]NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-295.20.run[/code]
[code]yum update[/code]
[code]yum install kernel-devel kernel-headers gcc make[/code]
and this is where tutorials really start to differ. Some say go to menu.1st and take out nouveau driver. (didn't work for me) so I went and blacklisted it. Some say after reboot deinstall nouveau driver completly, haven't tried that, but I don't think that is my problem. All say go to init 3 (best to boot to init 3), execute run script, let the script update my xorg.conf file, reboot to init 5 and be happy!
everything works fine, except for reboot to to init 5 and be happy. The system will crash/halt however you want to call it. Trying to execute nvida-settings after install process tells me there is no control screen(?) present and therfore it would like to take this data from $DISPLAY. That variable is empty on my system though.
help? :-?
as promised, here I am again. I have been trying to install the nvidia drivers for my graphics card, however, failed miserably. But before I start, the obligartory pastebin:
[url=http://pastebin.centos.org/38397]Pastebin ./getinfo.sh[/url]
this is the lspci -nn output for 01:00 (vga)
[code]01:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: nVidia Corporation GF106 [GeForce GT 555M] [10de:0dcd] (rev a1)[/code]
I went to Nvidias website and downloaded the following driver (as kmod-nvidia didnt work for me) to download
[code]NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-295.20.run[/code]
[code]yum update[/code]
[code]yum install kernel-devel kernel-headers gcc make[/code]
and this is where tutorials really start to differ. Some say go to menu.1st and take out nouveau driver. (didn't work for me) so I went and blacklisted it. Some say after reboot deinstall nouveau driver completly, haven't tried that, but I don't think that is my problem. All say go to init 3 (best to boot to init 3), execute run script, let the script update my xorg.conf file, reboot to init 5 and be happy!
everything works fine, except for reboot to to init 5 and be happy. The system will crash/halt however you want to call it. Trying to execute nvida-settings after install process tells me there is no control screen(?) present and therfore it would like to take this data from $DISPLAY. That variable is empty on my system though.
help? :-?