On Sat, 2016-11-12 at 15:34 -0500, Fred Smith wrote: > On Sat, Nov 12, 2016 at 09:15:22PM +0100, Louis Lagendijk wrote: > > > > I got a new laptop as my old one died: an HP Probook 470 G4. > > I installed Centos 7 1511. > > The laptop has a Kaby Lake i5 CPU and an > > 01:00.0 3D controller: NVIDIA Corporation Device 134e (rev a2). > > Fedora recognizes it as a GM108M/930MX. This may give some hints, > > but > > it is not that the standard kernel does not support it, this output > > comes from the 4.8.7 mainline kernel which should support this > > configuration? GM108 support was added in kernel 4.7, Kaby lake > > support > > was added in 4.5... > > > > When I boot nothing shows up after the UEFI Grub menu: the system > > runs > > but nothing is shown on the display, except for a non-blinking > > cursor > > in the upper left of the screen. I tried a number of things: > > - Installed the latest ml-kernel from Elrepo (4.8.7-1) > > - I also tried the following on the kernel commandline: > > nomodeset i915.nomodeset=0 nouveau.modeset=0 > > Nothing changes the fact that there is no display. > > > > I had to install Centos 7 using vnc as even a text install did not > > work > > > > Does anybody have some idea what the cause could be and what to try > > next? > > Did you try CTRL-ALT-F2 or -F3 ? perhaps X has just died (or not been > properly started), but that would get you a text-mode consosle from > which to work and experiment. > > if that works, you could try typing "startx" (lose the quotes). which > may provide informative errors. or not. > > YMMV > > Thanks for your response, but... No, tried it, but that did not work either unfortunately. Louis