Hello,
I have been trying for a few months now to get a GUI setup on my laptop. It is a MSI GS63VR. I initially tried using stock RHEL 7.5/3.10-862 kernel and used the Elrepo kmod-nvidia/bumblebee/primus setup but I never got this to work I always ended up with a ‘hung’ terminal.
After several iterations of installs (of both the OS and kmod-nvidia) the furthest I could get was a single failure in Xorg.log - "“Failed to open DRM device for (null): -2"”
Having browsed quite a few articles on google, I was getting the sense that relatively new MSI laptops do not play well with ‘older’ kernels. I therefore deceided to install a relatively recent kernel and try once more. I went with Elrepo-ml 4.17 kernel. I followed a definite list of steps (which I’ll outline below) but I could not launch into GNOME/KDE. The last error I get in my Xorg.log is “Failed to initialize GLX extension (Compatible NVIDIA X driver not found)”. In the Xorg.log, I can see that nouveau is loaded even though i blacklisted it. I’m guessing the ‘X’ packages have nouveau as a dependency and so are trying to load it? I didn’t think that nouveu would be loaded as i also have “install nouveau /bin/false” in my blacklist file.
I have enclosed the output from running “startx – -logverbose 6”. I have also attached nvidia-bug-report.log.gz.
Brief outline of my installation steps:
- Install base RHEL7.5 linux minimal
- Update to latest kernel
- Reboot
- Install EPEl and elRepo kernels
- Reboot
- Install elrepo-kernel-ml
- Reboot
- Install kernel-ml-devel, gcc, dkms
- blackist and remove nouveau
- Rebuild grub (EFI based) and initramfs
- reboot
- Install GUI packages
- Reboot
- Install NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-390.77
- Reboot.
- startx
I initially tried with NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-396.51 but I got the same error.
Any help or pointers would be much appreciated. After months of getting nowhere, I am on the verge of just using the laptop as a windows machine!
Thanks in advance,
John
nvidia-bug-report.log.gz (84.6 KB)
Xorg.0.log (32.6 KB)