Find the akmod-nvidia package. Last I bothered with this some years ago, the akmod package was required to ensure the nvidia module would be rebuilt every time a new kernel was booted into. Mark On Thu, 2017-12-14 at 16:51 -0500, Jerry Geis 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