On 28/02/13 11:42, Johan Vermeulen wrote: > > Op 28-02-13 12:21, Ned Slider schreef: >> On 28/02/13 10:52, Johan Vermeulen wrote: >>> Op 28-02-13 10:04, jvermeulen schreef: >>>> Dear All, >>>> >>>> after updating to Centos6.4 via cr-repo, my laptop hangs on: >>>> >>>> starting crond : ok >>>> >>>> I booted in single user mode but I'm not sure what to change .... >>>> >>>> The laptop is an older MSI, hardware details attached. >>>> >>>> what could be the issue here? >>>> >>>> greetings, J. >>> Solved after removing Elrepo-package kmod-nvidia. >>> I had that installed for being able to use an external monitor. >>> >> Without posting any details like what version of the driver you are >> using, or a copy of your xorg.log file showing the errors it's >> impossible to say or do much other than guess at the problem. >> >> However, I have done my best to test your scenario. The latest NVIDIA >> driver to support your hardware (from elrepo) is kmod-nvidia-304xx, the >> 304 series legacy driver (if you are unsure, trying installing and >> running nvidia-detect from elrepo which will advise you of the correct >> driver for your hardware). >> >> I can tell you that this driver works fine with the 6.4 update. There >> was some doubt about whether older drivers would support 6.4 as Xorg >> received an ABI update to 13.1 in the 6.4 release which older display >> drivers might not support. However, I have confirmed that the 304.xx >> legacy drivers and the latest 310.xx series NVIDIA drivers both fully >> support the version of Xorg shipped with 6.4 >> >> So, my best guess is that you were maybe running an old version of the >> NVIDIA drivers and needed to update? But as I said above, without any >> further clues to work with I'm really guessing in the dark. >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> CentOS mailing list >> CentOS at centos.org >> http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > > Hello, > > thanks for looking in to this. > > Indeed, I should have included xorg.log. It took me longer than it > should have to realize it was a "graphical issue". > > Not updating could be the issue, I installed kmod-nvidia but never ran > an update with Elrepo repo enabled. > I will test that and report back. > > Greetings, J. > That indeed sounds like the issue. Try (re)installing the latest version that supports your hardware, kmod-nvidia-304xx: yum install kmod-nvidia-304xx and reboot. Hope that helps.