[CentOS] CentOS 7 on a new Dell Precision

Sat May 15 23:44:54 UTC 2021
Phil Perry <pperry at elrepo.org>

On 15/05/2021 16:14, Tony Schreiner wrote:
> On Tue, May 4, 2021 at 3:21 PM Tony Schreiner <anthony.schreiner at bc.edu>
> wrote:
> 
>> I am trying to install CentOS 7 on  a Dell Precision 3640 and am
>> having some driver problems.
>>
>> I had to use kmod-e1000e from ElReo enable networking on the:
>> 00:1f.6 Ethernet controller [0200]: Intel Corporation Ethernet
>> Connection (11) I219-LM [8086:0d4c]
>>
>>
>> I still don't have graphics. When starting Gnome, it shows the graphic
>> screen briefly but reverts to the text login.
>>
>> It has two graphics cards:
>> 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Intel Corporation Device
>> [8086:9bc5] (rev 05)
>> 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
>> [AMD/ATI] Lexa XT [Radeon PRO WX 3200] [1002:6981] (rev 10)
>>
>> lsmod shows i915 and amdgpu modules loaded
>> but Xorg.0.log says the modules amdgpu cannot be found. Is it a version
>> issue?
>> Dell has a Radeon driver for RHEL 8, but not for 7.
>>
>> ...
> 
> Follow up.
> It was suggested to me off-list to try the elrepo -lt kernel. I have and it
> gives me network and graphics.


Fantastic - glad we could help :-)