It looks like my new laptop has a Optimus system:
# lspci -vnn | grep '\''[030[02]\]'
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Intel Corporation Device [8086:4688] (rev 0c) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: NVIDIA Corporation Device [10de:25ba] (rev a1) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
I started without X-Windows, then made it work (without using an /etc/X11/xorg.conf file) without NVIDIA drivers, and finally wanted to install the latest NVIDIA driver for CentOS 7. Right now I can go back to the solution without the NVIDIA drivers, but obviously I would like to create a configuration file (xorg.conf) which works with my NVIDIA graphics card and the NVIDIA driver. Any help would be appreciated. I started the X server with startx -- -logverbose 6 and ran nvidia-bug-report.sh after the problem has occurred. The problem is that I stuck in console mode when using the NVIDIA driver (and trying to use startx). Here is the resulting *.log.gz file:
nvidia-bug-report.log.gz (310.8 KB)
generix
September 19, 2022, 9:23am
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You can’t really run Centos 7 on a new hybrid graphics notebook due to the 12th gen intel igpu needing a recent kernel and firmware.
Thanks a lot @generix . That saved me a ton of time. I went for Rocky Linux 8.6 instead and followed this guide .
$ nvidia-smi
Tue Sep 20 16:45:18 2022
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| NVIDIA-SMI 515.65.01 Driver Version: 515.65.01 CUDA Version: 11.7 |
|-------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------+
| GPU Name Persistence-M| Bus-Id Disp.A | Volatile Uncorr. ECC |
| Fan Temp Perf Pwr:Usage/Cap| Memory-Usage | GPU-Util Compute M. |
| | | MIG M. |
|===============================+======================+======================|
| 0 NVIDIA RTX A200... Off | 00000000:01:00.0 Off | N/A |
| N/A 40C P8 N/A / N/A | 498MiB / 8192MiB | 0% Default |
| | | N/A |
+-------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------+
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Processes: |
| GPU GI CI PID Type Process name GPU Memory |
| ID ID Usage |
|=============================================================================|
| 0 N/A N/A 3723 G /usr/libexec/Xorg 242MiB |
| 0 N/A N/A 3878 G /usr/bin/gnome-shell 253MiB |
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
[jan@ADSKPF3Y2P6L Pictures]$ neofetch
##### jan@ADSKPF3Y2P6L
####### ----------------
##O#O## OS: Rocky Linux 8.6 (Green Obsidian) x86_64
####### Host: 21D7S0V302 ThinkPad P16 Gen 1
########### Kernel: 4.18.0-372.26.1.el8_6.x86_64
############# Uptime: 14 mins
############### Packages: 1543 (rpm)
################ Shell: bash 4.4.20
################# Resolution: 3840x2400
##################### Terminal: /dev/pts/1
##################### CPU: 12th Gen Intel i9-12950HX (24) @ 3.600GHz
################# GPU: NVIDIA 01:00.0 NVIDIA Corporation Device 25ba
GPU: Intel Device 4688
Memory: 1813MiB / 63799MiB