[CentOS] Centos 7 and Kably lake: black screen

Mon Nov 14 12:48:43 UTC 2016
Johnny Hughes <johnny at centos.org>

On 11/12/2016 02:39 PM, Louis Lagendijk wrote:
> 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.
>

If you still have the machine available, try using the experimental kernel:

http://mirror.centos.org/altarch/7/experimental/x86_64/

Also, what graphic card does it use?

Thanks,
Johnny Hughes



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