CentOS - Mar 2015 - Strange crash after NVidia driver installation from ELRepo

Le 03.03.2015 17:00, Steve Thompson a ?crit?:
> On Tue, 3 Mar 2015, info at microlinux.fr wrote:
> 
> Any suggestions?
> 
> There are multiple nvidia drivers in Elrepo, depending on the model of
> video card. Install and run nvidia-detect to find out which driver you
> need; just installing the "kmod-nvidia" package is not guaranteed
to
> give you a working driver.
I used nvidia-detect, and installed kmod-nvidia. Even then, the previous 
installation ran kmod-nvidia with success on twin monitors.

And even then, installing the wrong NVidia driver should only result in 
X failing to start... but not in a system that won't even *boot*. 
Startup messages stopped short immediately, I'd say right after 
initramfs was loaded.

On a side note: before using CentOS, I ran Slackware for a few years, so 
I know how to configure X and video drivers manually. I've never seen 
this sort of weird crash.

Niki
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On Tue, Mar 03, 2015 at 05:08:10PM +0100, info at microlinux.fr
wrote:
> Le 03.03.2015 17:00, Steve Thompson a ?crit?:
> >On Tue, 3 Mar 2015, info at microlinux.fr wrote:
> >
> >Any suggestions?
> >
> >There are multiple nvidia drivers in Elrepo, depending on the model of
> >video card. Install and run nvidia-detect to find out which driver you
> >need; just installing the "kmod-nvidia" package is not
guaranteed to
> >give you a working driver.
> 
> I used nvidia-detect, and installed kmod-nvidia. Even then, the
> previous installation ran kmod-nvidia with success on twin monitors.
This might have to do with the NVidia update, explained on the elrepo
pages.

http://elrepo.org/tiki/kmod-nvidia

You may have an older card that will require the 340xx versions of the
various NVidia tools.

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Le 03/03/2015 18:45, Scott Robbins a ?crit :
> This might have to do with the NVidia update, explained on the elrepo
> pages.
>
> http://elrepo.org/tiki/kmod-nvidia
>
> You may have an older card that will require the 340xx versions of the
> various NVidia tools.
No, it's a GT520 which is supposed to work with the latest driver.

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