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harry42
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grey-ish screen, no login window

Post by harry42 » 2017/11/23 11:41:30

Hello,

im facing a problem, my centos 7.3 won't show me the login screen. i'm thankful for every hint, i tried already a lot.

see here:
https://ibb.co/mBLba6

im using a Qaudro M4000 with Centos 7.3

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xorg.conf    
    # RPM Fusion - nvidia-xorg.conf
    #
    
    Section "Module"
        Load "extmod"
        Load "dbe"
        Load "type1"
        Load "freetype"
        Load "glx"
    EndSection
    
    Section "ServerLayout"
        Identifier     "Default Layout"
        Screen         "Default Screen" 0 0
        InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
        InputDevice    "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
    EndSection
    
    Section "InputDevice"
    
        # generated from default
        Identifier     "Keyboard0"
        Driver         "keyboard"
    EndSection
    
    Section "InputDevice"
    
        # generated from default
        Identifier     "Mouse0"
        Driver         "mouse"
        Option         "Protocol" "auto"
        Option         "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
        Option         "Emulate3Buttons" "no"
        Option         "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
    EndSection
    
    Section "Monitor"
        Identifier     "Monitor0"
        VendorName     "Unknown"
        ModelName      "Unknown"
        HorizSync       28.0 - 33.0
        VertRefresh     43.0 - 72.0
        Option         "DPMS"
    EndSection
    
    Section "Device"
        Identifier     "Videocard0"
        Driver         "nvidia"
        VendorName     "NVIDIA Corporation"
        BoardName      "Quadro M4000"
        BusID          "PCI:8:0:0"
    EndSection
    
    Section "Screen"
        Identifier     "Default Screen"
        Device         "Videocard0"
        Monitor        "Monitor0"
    Option         "AllowEmptyInitialConfiguration" "True"
    Option "IgnoreDisplayDevices" "DFP, TV"
        DefaultDepth    24
        SubSection     "Display"
            Depth       24
            Modes      "nvidia-auto-select"
        EndSubSection
    EndSection

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 log:

    Release Date: 2017-03-15
    X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0
    Build Operating System:  3.10.0-514.16.1.el7.x86_64
    Current Operating System: Linux grseo01.uvs-ova.austria 3.10.0-693.2.2.el7.x86_64 #1 SMP Tue Sep 12 22:26:13 UTC 2017 x86_64
    Kernel command line: BOOT_IMAGE=/vmlinuz-3.10.0-693.2.2.el7.x86_64 root=/dev/mapper/cl_grseo01-root ro crashkernel=auto rd.lvm.lv=cl_grseo01/root rd.lvm.lv=cl_grseo01/swap rd.lvm.lv=cl_grseo01/usr rhgb quiet LANG=de_AT.UTF-8 nouveau.modeset=0 rd.driver.blacklist=nouveau video=vesa:off
    Build Date: 05 August 2017  06:19:43AM
    Build ID: xorg-x11-server 1.19.3-11.el7
    Current version of pixman: 0.34.0
            Before reporting problems, check 
            to make sure that you have the latest version.
    Markers: (--) probed, (**) from config file, (==) default setting,
            (++) from command line, (!!) notice, (II) informational,
            (WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown.
    (==) Log file: "/var/log/Xorg.0.log", Time: Thu Nov 23 11:37:17 2017
    (==) Using config file: "/etc/X11/xorg.conf"
    (==) Using config directory: "/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d"
    (==) Using system config directory "/usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d"
    (==) ServerLayout "Default Layout"
    (**) |-->Screen "Default Screen" (0)
    (**) |   |-->Monitor "Monitor0"
    (**) |   |-->Device "Videocard0"
    (**) |-->Input Device "Keyboard0"
    (**) |-->Input Device "Mouse0"
    (==) Automatically adding devices
    (==) Automatically enabling devices
    (==) Automatically adding GPU devices
    (==) Automatically binding GPU devices
    (==) Max clients allowed: 256, resource mask: 0x1fffff
    (==) FontPath set to:
            catalogue:/etc/X11/fontpath.d,
            built-ins
    (**) ModulePath set to "/usr/lib64/nvidia/xorg,/usr/lib64/xorg/modules"
    (WW) Hotplugging is on, devices using drivers 'kbd', 'mouse' or 'vmmouse' will be disabled.
    (WW) Disabling Keyboard0
    (WW) Disabling Mouse0
    (II) xfree86: Adding drm device (/dev/dri/card1)
    (II) xfree86: Adding drm device (/dev/dri/card0)
    (--) PCI:*(0:1:0:1) 102b:0533:103c:3381 rev 1, Mem  0x91000000/16777216, 0x92a88000/16384, 0x92000000/8388608, BIOS   0x????????/131072
    (--) PCI: (0:8:0:0) 10de:13f1:10de:1153 rev 161, Mem  0x93000000/16777216, 0x39fe0000000/268435456, 0x39ff0000000/33554432, I/O   0x00002000/128, BIOS   0x????????/524288
    (II) "glx" will be loaded. This was enabled by default and also specified in the config file.
    (II) Loading /usr/lib64/nvidia/xorg/libglx.so
    (II) Module glx: vendor="NVIDIA Corporation"
            compiled for 4.0.2, module version = 1.0.0
    (II) NVIDIA GLX Module  384.81  Sat Sep  2 01:14:30 PDT 2017
    (II) Loading /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/drivers/nvidia_drv.so
    (II) Module nvidia: vendor="NVIDIA Corporation"
            compiled for 4.0.2, module version = 1.0.0
    (II) NVIDIA dlloader X Driver  384.81  Sat Sep  2 00:49:07 PDT 2017
    (II) NVIDIA Unified Driver for all Supported NVIDIA GPUs
    (++) using VT number 1
    
    (II) Loading /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/libfb.so
    (II) Module fb: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
            compiled for 1.19.3, module version = 1.0.0
    (II) Loading /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/libwfb.so
    (II) Module wfb: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
            compiled for 1.19.3, module version = 1.0.0
    (**) NVIDIA(0): Depth 24, (--) framebuffer bpp 32
    (==) NVIDIA(0): RGB weight 888
    (==) NVIDIA(0): Default visual is TrueColor
    (==) NVIDIA(0): Using gamma correction (1.0, 1.0, 1.0)
    (**) NVIDIA(0): Enabling 2D acceleration
    (II) NVIDIA(0): NVIDIA GPU Quadro M4000 (GM204GL-A) at PCI:8:0:0 (GPU-0)
    (--) NVIDIA(0): Memory: 8388608 kBytes
    (--) NVIDIA(0): VideoBIOS: 84.04.88.00.06
    (II) NVIDIA(0): Detected PCI Express Link width: 16X
    (II) NVIDIA(0): Validated MetaModes:
    (II) NVIDIA(0): Virtual screen size determined to be 640 x 480
    (WW) NVIDIA(0): Unable to get display device for DPI computation.
    (==) NVIDIA(0): DPI set to (75, 75); computed from built-in default
    (--) Depth 24 pixmap format is 32 bpp
    (II) NVIDIA: Using 12288.00 MB of virtual memory for indirect memory
    (II) NVIDIA:     access.
    (II) NVIDIA(0): Setting mode "NULL"
    (==) NVIDIA(0): Disabling shared memory pixmaps
    (==) NVIDIA(0): Backing store enabled
    (==) NVIDIA(0): Silken mouse enabled
    (**) NVIDIA(0): DPMS enabled
    (II) NVIDIA(0): [DRI2] Setup complete
    (II) NVIDIA(0): [DRI2]   VDPAU driver: nvidia
    (--) RandR disabled
    (II) SELinux: Disabled by boolean
    (II) Initializing extension GLX
    (II) config/udev: Adding input device Power Button (/dev/input/event0)
    (**) Power Button: Applying InputClass "evdev keyboard catchall"
    (**) Power Button: Applying InputClass "system-keyboard"
    (II) Loading /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/input/evdev_drv.so
    (II) Module evdev: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
            compiled for 1.19.3, module version = 2.10.5
    (II) Using input driver 'evdev' for 'Power Button'
    (**) Power Button: always reports core events
    (**) evdev: Power Button: Device: "/dev/input/event0"
    (--) evdev: Power Button: Vendor 0 Product 0x1
    (--) evdev: Power Button: Found keys
    (II) evdev: Power Button: Configuring as keyboard
    (II) XINPUT: Adding extended input device "Power Button" (type: KEYBOARD, id 6)
    The XKEYBOARD keymap compiler (xkbcomp) reports:
    > Warning:          Type "ONE_LEVEL" has 1 levels, but <RALT> has 2 symbols
    >                   Ignoring extra Symbols
Best Regards
Harald
Last edited by harry42 on 2017/11/28 14:38:50, edited 1 time in total.

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Re: grey-ish screen, no login window

Post by desertcat » 2017/11/26 07:21:46

OK let's check a few things:

1) You are using a 64bit computer?? (I am assuming from the graphics card it is, but if it is a 32 bit system drop back to CentOS 6.x 32bit)

2) When you installed the OS you DID create both a Root and Users Account?? (You would be amazed how easy it is to forget to do these things. If you forgot to do so that would be a major reason you can't login.)

3) Did you select a GUI such as KDE or GNOME?

4) Can you log in as Root?? If you can create a new User and Password, then reboot the system and see if the new User shows up.

Judging from what you have described it almost sounds as though there is no User. I don't think this is a problem of the video card, but rather the install configuration problem ie it is missing something, possibly a User's account and probably a Root account. Did you check the install medium and insure that the MD5SUMs match? You could have installed from corrupted medium.

Having pulled my hair out several times during various installs over the years, if worst comes to worst simply nuke the system and do a re-install from the ground up. Down load a new .iso check that the md5sums match, burn to new medium, and reinstall making sure that you don't forget to create both Root and User accounts with Passwords for each.

Keep us posted

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Re: grey-ish screen, no login window

Post by harry42 » 2017/11/27 08:25:28

Hey,

thirst thank you for your answer.

1.) Yes I use a 64bit Computer (ProLiant DL380 Gen9), the Server is running without a phsyical Screen,mouse,keyboard.

2.) Yes i have several accounts on this machine, I can Log in with root and user Accounts via ssh

3.) i selected during install GNOME, and it worked already with the Standard Driver.

i used a netinstall image from a mirrored server, hmm i did not check the md5 size of the image. Do you believe that can be a issue?, i mean the login was already possible with the standard driver

I download the nvidia Driver from nvidia and i can use the cuda Driver via ssh, so i believe it is not da Driver issue, it Looks like more a config issue with X Server .

Unfortunately a complete reinstall is not so easy to do, because several services running already (mysql, elasticsearch

Best Regards
Harald

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Re: grey-ish screen, no login window

Post by desertcat » 2017/11/28 07:40:50

harry42 wrote:Hey,

thirst thank you for your answer.

1.) Yes I use a 64bit Computer (ProLiant DL380 Gen9), the Server is running without a phsyical Screen,mouse,keyboard.

2.) Yes i have several accounts on this machine, I can Log in with root and user Accounts via ssh

3.) i selected during install GNOME, and it worked already with the Standard Driver.

i used a netinstall image from a mirrored server, hmm i did not check the md5 size of the image. Do you believe that can be a issue?, i mean the login was already possible with the standard driver

I download the nvidia Driver from nvidia and i can use the cuda Driver via ssh, so i believe it is not da Driver issue, it Looks like more a config issue with X Server .

Unfortunately a complete reinstall is not so easy to do, because several services running already (mysql, elasticsearch

Best Regards
Harald
Harald,

Just to be sure: You can ssh to the machine, and access the various users accounts, but when you boot the actual machine you don't get something listing all the users on that machine correct?

Now when you were installing the various accounts you created them on that machine at the time of installation?? ie you did not create them via ssh from another machine?

It almost sounds that something is whacked. It almost sounds like you have a corrupted login file. This may have something the gdm display manager.

One other thing you could look at is your /etc/passwd file an check to insure that each user has two numbers that are the same ex. 1001:1001; 1002:1002; etc.

Do try and create a NEW user (dummy account) and after you create it reboot the machine and see if it comes up. If it does then something's screwed up with you users accounts; if it does not come up then the problem is somewhere else. Check your /var/log files.

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Re: grey-ish screen, no login window

Post by jlehtone » 2017/11/28 08:54:04

Where is the nvidia-driver from? ELRepo?

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Re: grey-ish screen, no login window

Post by harry42 » 2017/11/28 14:08:20

Driver is from nvidia, i think i have two indipendend failure
1.) a start job is running for plymouth boot screen to quit
2.) Nov 28 14:49:01 grseo01.uvs-ova.austria kernel: gnome-shell[2440]: segfault at 14 ip 00007f708b6cb487 sp 00007ffe405d2eb0 error 4 in libmutter.so.0.0.0[7f708b68f000+e

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[root@grseo01 ~]# modinfo nvidia
filename:       /lib/modules/3.10.0-693.5.2.el7.x86_64/weak-updates/nvidia.ko
alias:          char-major-195-*
version:        384.81
supported:      external
license:        NVIDIA
rhelversion:    7.4
srcversion:     7540E0429A507D5D54DA589
alias:          pci:v000010DEd00000E00sv*sd*bc04sc80i00*
alias:          pci:v000010DEd*sv*sd*bc03sc02i00*
alias:          pci:v000010DEd*sv*sd*bc03sc00i00*
depends:        i2c-core
vermagic:       3.10.0-693.2.2.el7.x86_64 SMP mod_unload modversions
parm:           NVreg_Mobile:int
parm:           NVreg_ResmanDebugLevel:int
parm:           NVreg_RmLogonRC:int
parm:           NVreg_ModifyDeviceFiles:int
parm:           NVreg_DeviceFileUID:int
parm:           NVreg_DeviceFileGID:int
parm:           NVreg_DeviceFileMode:int
parm:           NVreg_UpdateMemoryTypes:int
parm:           NVreg_InitializeSystemMemoryAllocations:int
parm:           NVreg_UsePageAttributeTable:int
parm:           NVreg_MapRegistersEarly:int
parm:           NVreg_RegisterForACPIEvents:int
parm:           NVreg_CheckPCIConfigSpace:int
parm:           NVreg_EnablePCIeGen3:int
parm:           NVreg_EnableMSI:int
parm:           NVreg_TCEBypassMode:int
parm:           NVreg_UseThreadedInterrupts:int
parm:           NVreg_EnableStreamMemOPs:int
parm:           NVreg_MemoryPoolSize:int
parm:           NVreg_RegistryDwords:charp
parm:           NVreg_RegistryDwordsPerDevice:charp
parm:           NVreg_RmMsg:charp
parm:           NVreg_AssignGpus:charp
[/code]

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journalctl -ab

Nov 28 14:49:01 grseo01.uvs-ova.austria abrt-server[2439]: Duplicate: core backtrace
Nov 28 14:49:01 grseo01.uvs-ova.austria abrt-server[2439]: DUP_OF_DIR: /var/spool/abrt/ccpp-2017-11-23-11:16:13-3657
Nov 28 14:49:01 grseo01.uvs-ova.austria abrt-server[2439]: Deleting problem directory ccpp-2017-11-28-14:49:00-2404 (dup of ccpp-2017-11-23-11:16:13-3657)
Nov 28 14:49:01 grseo01.uvs-ova.austria kernel: gnome-shell[2440]: segfault at 14 ip 00007f708b6cb487 sp 00007ffe405d2eb0 error 4 in libmutter.so.0.0.0[7f708b68f000+e
Nov 28 14:49:01 grseo01.uvs-ova.austria abrt-hook-ccpp[2451]: Process 2440 (gnome-shell) of user 42 killed by SIGSEGV - ignoring (repeated crash)
Nov 28 14:49:01 grseo01.uvs-ova.austria gnome-session-binary[2375]: DEBUG(+): GsmAutostartApp: (pid:2440) done (signal:11)
Nov 28 14:49:01 grseo01.uvs-ova.austria gnome-session-binary[2375]: WARNING: Application 'org.gnome.Shell.desktop' killed by signal 11
Nov 28 14:49:01 grseo01.uvs-ova.austria gnome-session-binary[2375]: DEBUG(+): Re-starting app: /org/gnome/SessionManager/App1
Nov 28 14:49:01 grseo01.uvs-ova.austria gnome-session-binary[2375]: WARNING: App 'org.gnome.Shell.desktop' respawning too quickly
Nov 28 14:49:01 grseo01.uvs-ova.austria gnome-session-binary[2375]: Unrecoverable failure in required component org.gnome.Shell.desktop
Nov 28 14:49:01 grseo01.uvs-ova.austria gnome-session-binary[2375]: DEBUG(+): GsmManager: ending phase DISPLAY_SERVER
Nov 28 14:49:01 grseo01.uvs-ova.austria gnome-session-binary[2375]: DEBUG(+): GsmManager: starting phase INITIALIZATION
Nov 28 14:49:01 grseo01.uvs-ova.austria gnome-session-binary[2375]: DEBUG(+): GsmManager: starting app '/org/gnome/SessionManager/App4'
Nov 28 14:49:01 grseo01.uvs-ova.austria gnome-session-binary[2375]: DEBUG(+): Starting app: /org/gnome/SessionManager/App4
Nov 28 14:49:01 grseo01.uvs-ova.austria gnome-session-binary[2375]: DEBUG(+): GsmAutostartApp: starting spice-vdagent.desktop: command=/usr/bin/spice-vdagent startup-
Nov 28 14:49:01 grseo01.uvs-ova.austria gnome-session-binary[2375]: DEBUG(+): GsmAutostartApp: started pid:2482
Nov 28 14:49:01 grseo01.uvs-ova.austria gnome-session-binary[2375]: DEBUG(+): GsmManager: starting app '/org/gnome/SessionManager/App2'
Nov 28 14:49:01 grseo01.uvs-ova.austria gnome-session-binary[2375]: DEBUG(+): Starting app: /org/gnome/SessionManager/App2
Nov 28 14:49:01 grseo01.uvs-ova.austria gnome-session-binary[2375]: DEBUG(+): GsmAutostartApp: starting gnome-settings-daemon.desktop: command=/usr/libexec/gnome-sett
Nov 28 14:49:01 grseo01.uvs-ova.austria spice-vdagent[2482]: Cannot access vdagent virtio channel /dev/virtio-ports/com.redhat.spice.0
Nov 28 14:49:01 grseo01.uvs-ova.austria gnome-session-binary[2375]: DEBUG(+): GsmAutostartApp: started pid:2485
Nov 28 14:49:01 grseo01.uvs-ova.austria gnome-session-binary[2375]: DEBUG(+): GsmAutostartApp: (pid:2482) done (status:1)
Nov 28 14:49:01 grseo01.uvs-ova.austria gnome-session-binary[2375]: WARNING: App 'spice-vdagent.desktop' exited with code 1
Nov 28 14:49:01 grseo01.uvs-ova.austria gnome-session-binary[2375]: DEBUG(+): Caught SIGINT/SIGTERM, shutting down normally.
Nov 28 14:49:01 grseo01.uvs-ova.austria dbus-daemon[977]: dbus[977]: [system] Activating service name='org.freedesktop.problems' (using servicehelper)
Nov 28 14:49:01 grseo01.uvs-ova.austria dbus[977]: [system] Activating service name='org.freedesktop.problems' (using servicehelper)
Nov 28 14:49:01 grseo01.uvs-ova.austria dbus-daemon[977]: dbus[977]: [system] Successfully activated service 'org.freedesktop.problems'
Nov 28 14:49:01 grseo01.uvs-ova.austria dbus[977]: [system] Successfully activated service 'org.freedesktop.problems'
Nov 28 14:49:01 grseo01.uvs-ova.austria abrt-server[2439]: E-Mail-Adresse von sender wurde nicht angegeben. Möchten Sie dies jetzt tun? Falls nicht, wird 'user@localh
Nov 28 14:49:01 grseo01.uvs-ova.austria abrt-server[2439]: E-Mail-Adresse von receiver wurde nicht angegeben. Möchten Sie dies jetzt tun? Falls nicht, wird 'root@loca
Nov 28 14:49:01 grseo01.uvs-ova.austria abrt-server[2439]: Senden der E-Mail...
Nov 28 14:49:01 grseo01.uvs-ova.austria abrt-server[2439]: E-Mail-Benachrichtigung senden an: root@localhost
Nov 28 14:49:01 grseo01.uvs-ova.austria abrt-server[2439]: E-Mail wurde gesendet an: root@localhost

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systemd-analyze blame

          6.583s kdump.service
          6.250s NetworkManager-wait-online.service
          2.428s mariadb.service
          2.046s dkms.service
          1.109s postfix.service
           923ms firewalld.service
           902ms network.service
           762ms systemd-udev-settle.service
           673ms dev-mapper-cl_grseo01\x2droot.device
           540ms tuned.service
           536ms lvm2-monitor.service
           263ms lvm2-pvscan@8:4.service
           247ms libvirtd.service
           243ms systemd-logind.service
           217ms chronyd.service
           214ms acpid.service
           209ms mcelog.service
           181ms gssproxy.service
           179ms polkit.service
           175ms auditd.service
           170ms upower.service
           169ms abrt-ccpp.service
           169ms ModemManager.service
           168ms ksm.service
           166ms lvm2-pvscan@8:3.service
           165ms microcode.service
           163ms rhel-dmesg.service
           162ms proc-fs-nfsd.mount
           161ms sysstat.service
           152ms netcf-transaction.service
           151ms rtkit-daemon.service
           143ms avahi-daemon.service
           141ms systemd-vconsole-setup.service
           128ms rsyslog.service
           120ms gdm.service
           106ms boot.mount
            90ms systemd-udev-trigger.service
            87ms NetworkManager.service
            85ms boot-efi.mount
            82ms systemd-udevd.service
            81ms systemd-tmpfiles-setup.service
            79ms accounts-daemon.service
            68ms rhel-import-state.service
            62ms sshd.service
            59ms rhel-readonly.service
            59ms dmraid-activation.service
            56ms mnt-backup.mount
            55ms systemd-tmpfiles-setup-dev.service
            50ms home.mount
            49ms dev-mapper-cl_grseo01\x2dswap.swap
            47ms colord.service
            36ms elasticsearch.service
            34ms plymouth-start.service
            33ms systemd-tmpfiles-clean.service
            32ms ksmtuned.service
            31ms systemd-journald.service
            30ms kmod-static-nodes.service
            30ms rpc-statd-notify.service
            24ms dev-hugepages.mount
            22ms systemd-user-sessions.service
            22ms nfs-config.service
            21ms blk-availability.service
            19ms systemd-readahead-collect.service
            19ms systemd-sysctl.service
            19ms dev-mqueue.mount
            17ms iscsi-shutdown.service
            17ms plymouth-read-write.service
            16ms systemd-fsck-root.service
            15ms systemd-readahead-replay.service
            14ms systemd-journal-flush.service
            12ms systemd-remount-fs.service
            11ms var-lib-nfs-rpc_pipefs.mount
            11ms systemd-update-utmp.service
             7ms sys-kernel-debug.mount
             6ms systemd-random-seed.service
             3ms sys-kernel-config.mount

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jlehtone
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Re: grey-ish screen, no login window

Post by jlehtone » 2017/11/29 08:20:49

ELRepo has RPM-packaged NVidia-drivers that are less hassle than source installs.
Latest: kmod-nvidia-384.98-1.el7_4.elrepo

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Re: grey-ish screen, no login window

Post by harry42 » 2017/12/05 16:58:41

Hello,

i installed the System new with ELRepo Driver now it works

Thx for your help

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