Centos7 and Nvidia 302 driver black screen

[walter harms]

I was curious about the bug and found this solution here:
Did you see this also ?
http://superuser.com/questions/356124/trouble-with-my-nvidia-geforce-6150-on-debian-wheezy

In Debian there is abug report related to GeForce 6150SE nForce 430  and nouveau
https://lists.debian.org/debian-x/2015/05/msg00077.html
https://lists.debian.org/debian-x/2015/05/msg00088.html (indicated that an other driver works)


Sorry that is no solution but maybe they can point in the right direction.


re,
 wh

Am 25.08.2015 14:49, schrieb Ron Wheeler:
> I am a longtime Linux system admin with several servers running Centos 5
> and 6.
> I am moving to Centos7 and am not a happy camper for many reasons but it
> is getting better as the bugs get fixed.
> 
> One current issue is one of a server that I am upgrading from Centos 6
> to Centos 7 with a clean install(reformat disk and install from CD,
> apply updates.
> I have blacklisted the nouveau driver which does not seem to support
> NVIDIA GeForce 6150.
> 
> The NVIDIA driver seems to be the correct one for the hardware
>  NVIDIA GLX Module  304.125  Mon Dec  1 20:22:48 PST 2014
> 
> 
> [  3340.557] Build Date: 10 April 2015  11:44:42AM
> [  3340.557] Build ID: xorg-x11-server 1.15.0-33.el7_1
> [  3340.557] Current version of pixman: 0.32.4
> 
> It seems to be happy with the hardware and detects the monitor OK with
> the right resolution.
> [  3341.127] (II) NVIDIA(0): NVIDIA GPU GeForce 6150SE nForce 430 (C61)
> at PCI:0:13:0
> [  3341.127] (II) NVIDIA(0):     (GPU-0)
> [  3341.127] (--) NVIDIA(0): Memory: 524288 kBytes
> [  3341.127] (--) NVIDIA(0): VideoBIOS: 05.61.32.25.00
> [  3341.128] (--) NVIDIA(0): Interlaced video modes are supported on
> this GPU
> [  3341.128] (--) NVIDIA(0): Valid display device(s) on GeForce 6150SE
> nForce 430 at PCI:0:13:0
> [  3341.128] (--) NVIDIA(0):     ViewSonic VA2026w (CRT-0) (connected)
> [  3341.128] (--) NVIDIA(0): ViewSonic VA2026w (CRT-0): 350.0 MHz
> maximum pixel clock
> [  3341.128] (**) NVIDIA(0): Using HorizSync/VertRefresh ranges from the
> EDID for display
> [  3341.128] (**) NVIDIA(0):     device ViewSonic VA2026w (CRT-0) (Using
> EDID frequencies
> [  3341.128] (**) NVIDIA(0):     has been enabled on all display devices.)
> [  3341.128] (II) NVIDIA(0): Validated MetaModes:
> [  3341.128] (II) NVIDIA(0):     "CRT-0:nvidia-auto-select"
> [  3341.128] (II) NVIDIA(0): Virtual screen size determined to be 1680 x
> 1050
> 
> 
> At the end it complains about speakers other front and back devices
> which is expected since there is nothing attached to any of the audio
> ports.
> 
> The GNOME Desktop is installed.
> 
> When the system boots, the screen flashes in some rectangular blocks 
> and then goes black with a mouse cursor (sometimes)
> ALT-F2 and CTL-ALT-F1 work but nothing else happens in X11 mode.
> As a Linux console is still works as normal - can login and do Linux
> commands.
> 
> The gdm logs despite their bizarre naming convention (:0.log)? seen to
> indicate that it did not have any problems although it is hard to know
> what is normal from the messages output
> 
> Near the beginning of the log it says
> (==) Using config file: "/etc/X11/xorg.conf"
> (==) Using config directory: "/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d"
> (==) Using system config directory "/usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d"
> (==) ServerLayout "Default Layout"
> (**) |-->Screen "Default Screen" (0)
> (**) |   |-->Monitor "Monitor0"
> (**) |   |-->Device "Videocard0"
> (**) |-->Input Device "Keyboard0"
> (**) |-->Input Device "Mouse0"
> (==) Automatically adding devices
> (==) Automatically enabling devices
> (==) Automatically adding GPU devices
> (==) FontPath set to:
>         catalogue:/etc/X11/fontpath.d,
>         built-ins
> (**) ModulePath set to
> "/usr/lib64/xorg/modules/extensions/nvidia,/usr/lib64/xo
> rg/modules"
> (WW) Hotplugging is on, devices using drivers 'kbd', 'mouse' or
> 'vmmouse' will
> be disabled.
> (WW) Disabling Keyboard0
> (WW) Disabling Mouse0
> (II) xfree86: Adding drm device (/dev/dri/card0)
> 
> later it says
> (--) NVIDIA(0): Valid display device(s) on GeForce 6150SE nForce 430 at
> PCI:0:1
> 3:0
> (--) NVIDIA(0):     ViewSonic VA2026w (CRT-0) (connected)
> (--) NVIDIA(0): ViewSonic VA2026w (CRT-0): 350.0 MHz maximum pixel clock
> (**) NVIDIA(0): Using HorizSync/VertRefresh ranges from the EDID for
> display
> (**) NVIDIA(0):     device ViewSonic VA2026w (CRT-0) (Using EDID
> frequencies
> (**) NVIDIA(0):     has been enabled on all display devices.)
> 
> Which seems to indicate happiness with X11 and the connection to the
> screen but I would not know what to expect, of course.
> Later it identifies the mouse correctly and complains that nothing is
> connected to the audio and other media ports which strikes me as normal.
> 
> The last thing that it says is
> (II) NVIDIA(0): Setting mode "CRT-0:nvidia-auto-select"
> 
> Any suggestions about what else to look for?
> 
> Ron
>