[CentOS] CentOS 7 on a new Dell Precision

Sat May 15 15:14:10 UTC 2021
Tony Schreiner <anthony.schreiner at bc.edu>

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.