If you need to use a non stock kernel, you can also try to download the latest driver directly from nvidia. The nvidia official driver is very easy to install and works with almost all kernel versions. It can also be easily uninstalled too. On Dec 14, 2017 1:51 PM, "Jerry Geis" <jerry.geis at gmail.com> wrote: > I installed the elrepo kmod-nvidia and also the nvidia-detect and modules > (see below). > > I had X working with the 3.10 from Centos - but video was freezing. SO I > thought I would try the elrepo kernel. I installed that and X does not come > up? > > How do I re-make the nvidia module for 4.14.5 kernel? I want to make sure > the kmod kernel did it. I 'm thinking it did not. > > lspci | grep VGA says GT218 > > Or what do I look at now to see why X is not coming up? > > Thanks, > > Jerry > > uname -r > 4.14.5-1.el7.elrepo.x86_64 > > > grep EE /var/log/Xorg.0.log > (WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown. > [ 136.998] (EE) NVIDIA: Failed to initialize the NVIDIA kernel module. > Please see the > [ 136.998] (EE) NVIDIA: system's kernel log for additional error > messages and > [ 136.998] (EE) NVIDIA: consult the NVIDIA README for details. > [ 136.998] (EE) No devices detected. > [ 136.998] (EE) > [ 136.998] (EE) no screens found(EE) > [ 136.998] (EE) > [ 136.998] (EE) Please also check the log file at "/var/log/Xorg.0.log" > for additional information. > [ 136.998] (EE) > [ 137.004] (EE) Server terminated with error (1). Closing log file. > > uname -a > > rpm -qa | grep kernel > kernel-3.10.0-693.el7.x86_64 > kernel-tools-3.10.0-693.5.2.el7.x86_64 > abrt-addon-kerneloops-2.1.11-48.el7.centos.x86_64 > kernel-headers-3.10.0-693.5.2.el7.x86_64 > kernel-ml-devel-4.14.5-1.el7.elrepo.x86_64 > kernel-devel-3.10.0-693.el7.x86_64 > kernel-3.10.0-693.5.2.el7.x86_64 > kernel-ml-4.14.5-1.el7.elrepo.x86_64 > kernel-tools-libs-3.10.0-693.5.2.el7.x86_64 > kernel-devel-3.10.0-693.5.2.el7.x86_64 > [root at mediaport14 ~]# rpm -qa | grep kernel-ml > kernel-ml-devel-4.14.5-1.el7.elrepo.x86_64 > kernel-ml-4.14.5-1.el7.elrepo.x86_64 > > > # rpm -qa | grep nvidia > kmod-nvidia-340xx-340.102-4.el7_4.elrepo.x86_64 > nvidia-detect-384.90-1.el7.elrepo.x86_64 > yum-plugin-nvidia-1.0.2-1.el7.elrepo.noarch > nvidia-x11-drv-340xx-340.102-1.el7.elrepo.x86_64 > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >