[rhelv6-list] EL6 and T410(nvidia)

[delhage at gmail.com]

On Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 10:22, Grant Williamson <traxtopel at gmail.com> wrote:
> All,
>    anyone on this list using EL6 on a Lenovo T410, which has an nvidia
> graphics card.
> I am hearing reports from colleagues that the default nouveau driver just
> locks up at GDM.
>
> Anyone else seeing this issue, or have a bugzilla already open?
>

I've been seeing this exact issue this week on Lenovo T510 with
nVidia. lspci reports "nVidia Corporation GT218 [NVS 3100M] (rev a2)".
Installation goes fine, but then it locks up when GDM appears or a few
seconds after. I haven't found any bugzilla that looks like this
problem.

My "solution" so far is to blacklist the nouveau driver using
"rdblacklist=nouveau" as a bootparameter and adding "blacklist
nouveau" to /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist-nouveau.conf. This seems to fix
the problem even though Xorg is eventually loading the nouveau driver
anyway, I have no clue why it works.

I should mention that I've had one problem with this after several
hours of work and that is that the screen freezes, although the
machine still works (can login remotely). Adding an /etc/X11/xorg.conf
specifying the vesa driver instead does work and prevents the nouveau
driver from being loaded at all.

Cheers,

Lars