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? :-?
nVidia Corporation GF106 [GeForce GT 555M] won't install
Re: nVidia Corporation GF106 [GeForce GT 555M] won't install
addition:
what would really help me as well is, if you could tell me how to revert the changes this run script makes, because (careful: noob comment) right now I need to reinstall centos every time I screw up, which is..... timeconsuming .... :-o
what would really help me as well is, if you could tell me how to revert the changes this run script makes, because (careful: noob comment) right now I need to reinstall centos every time I screw up, which is..... timeconsuming .... :-o
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nVidia Corporation GF106 [GeForce GT 555M] won't install
Don't do that. Use the ELRepo [url=http://elrepo.org/tiki/FAQ]kABI-tracking[/url] driver [url=http://elrepo.org/tiki/kmod-nvidia]kmod-nvidia[/url] and life will be easier. :-)
A google on [url=http://www.google.com/search?q=nvidia+uninstall+linux&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a&safe=active]nvidia uninstall linux[/url] should help with getting rid of the manufacturer's driver.
A google on [url=http://www.google.com/search?q=nvidia+uninstall+linux&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a&safe=active]nvidia uninstall linux[/url] should help with getting rid of the manufacturer's driver.
Re: nVidia Corporation GF106 [GeForce GT 555M] won't install
Ok - you are crazy. Not because you know that much (although you do) but because your words do magic. Let me explain.
When I saw your answer at first I though "oh man, been there done that doesn't work". And it didnt. But I decided just to be sure to do it again.
So:
[code]
init 3
yum install kmod-nvidia
init 6
[/code]
stop at boot time when initializing graphics.
This time I decide, instead of reinstalling edit grub to boot runlevel 3
[code]
yum remove kmod-nvidia
init 6
[/code]
I boot up and it... WORKS??
I reinstall the kmod driver and it stops working. I remove it again, it works again. High Re, glxgears > 500.000....
I am going to redo the system before I say problem solved, but.....
Please explain why removing the nvidia driver module makes nouveau work?
When I saw your answer at first I though "oh man, been there done that doesn't work". And it didnt. But I decided just to be sure to do it again.
So:
[code]
init 3
yum install kmod-nvidia
init 6
[/code]
stop at boot time when initializing graphics.
This time I decide, instead of reinstalling edit grub to boot runlevel 3
[code]
yum remove kmod-nvidia
init 6
[/code]
I boot up and it... WORKS??
I reinstall the kmod driver and it stops working. I remove it again, it works again. High Re, glxgears > 500.000....
I am going to redo the system before I say problem solved, but.....
Please explain why removing the nvidia driver module makes nouveau work?
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Re: nVidia Corporation GF106 [GeForce GT 555M] won't install
Hard to guess. My crystal ball and my wizard's hat have both gone missing. :-)
Re: nVidia Corporation GF106 [GeForce GT 555M] won't install
Well, i reproduced it. Thats the way it works:
yum install kmod-nvidia
init 6
boot to runlvl 3
lsmod | grep nvidia
if nvidia runs
yum remove kmod-nvidia
reboot
fun
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thanks for your magic, you may mark this thread [SOLVED] for prosperity :-D
yum install kmod-nvidia
init 6
boot to runlvl 3
lsmod | grep nvidia
if nvidia runs
yum remove kmod-nvidia
reboot
fun
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thanks for your magic, you may mark this thread [SOLVED] for prosperity :-D