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.