Earl Ramirez wrote: > On 21 May 2012 10:06, <m.roth at 5-cent.us> wrote: >> Earl Ramirez wrote: <snip> >> > A few weeks ago I was trying to install KVM on my laptop, I bought a >> > new laptop and immediately after I install the nVidia drivers I receive >> > the following error "libfcoe_device_notification: NETDEV_UNREGISTER lo" >> > >> > I spent several hours googling the error and there are several issues, >> > however none of them are related to my situation. >> > >> > I am running CentOS 6.2 >> <snip> >> You say that you deleted xorg.conf, and could then boot into runlevel 5 >> using the default drivers. If you do an lsmod, does it show nouveau? >> >> When I do lsmod I see nvidia <snip> >> Second question: does the version of kmod-nvidia support your graphics >> card? > > This is interesting now that you mention it, the sticker on the laptops > says "nvidia GEFORCE GT 635M 2GB" and when I run lspci I see the > following. > 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation GF106 [GeForce GT > 555M] (rev a1). > > I verified that nvidia 635M is supported on the nvidia site. > Version:295.53 CertifiedRelease Date:2012.05.16Operating System:Linux <snip> > >> Oh, and did you yum install it, so that you got nvidia-x11-drv? >> >> I installed it using yum. But what I was asking was whether this version of kmod-nvidia uses the nvidia-released support for that card. You said you bought a new laptop that this is on - is that brand new out of the box, or new-to-you, used? > > The correct version is x86_64 > [wildfire at wildfire ~]$ rpm -qa | grep nvidia > nvidia-x11-drv-295.53-1.el6.elrepo.x86_64 > kmod-nvidia-295.53-1.el6.elrepo.x86_64 > [wildfire at wildfire ~]$ > > I don't know if this will shed any light but usually before you see the > login screen you will see nvidia once it have been installed correctly, > however I am see intel which is strange. *That* is extremely strange. Could there be a second, Intel, video? mark