On 11/12/2016 02:39 PM, Louis Lagendijk wrote: > On Sat, 2016-11-12 at 15:34 -0500, Fred Smith wrote: >> On Sat, Nov 12, 2016 at 09:15:22PM +0100, Louis Lagendijk wrote: >>> >>> I got a new laptop as my old one died: an HP Probook 470 G4. >>> I installed Centos 7 1511. >>> The laptop has a Kaby Lake i5 CPU and an >>> 01:00.0 3D controller: NVIDIA Corporation Device 134e (rev a2). >>> Fedora recognizes it as a GM108M/930MX. This may give some hints, >>> but >>> it is not that the standard kernel does not support it, this output >>> comes from the 4.8.7 mainline kernel which should support this >>> configuration? GM108 support was added in kernel 4.7, Kaby lake >>> support >>> was added in 4.5... >>> >>> When I boot nothing shows up after the UEFI Grub menu: the system >>> runs >>> but nothing is shown on the display, except for a non-blinking >>> cursor >>> in the upper left of the screen. I tried a number of things: >>> - Installed the latest ml-kernel from Elrepo (4.8.7-1) >>> - I also tried the following on the kernel commandline: >>> nomodeset i915.nomodeset=0 nouveau.modeset=0 >>> Nothing changes the fact that there is no display. >>> >>> I had to install Centos 7 using vnc as even a text install did not >>> work >>> >>> Does anybody have some idea what the cause could be and what to try >>> next? >> >> Did you try CTRL-ALT-F2 or -F3 ? perhaps X has just died (or not been >> properly started), but that would get you a text-mode consosle from >> which to work and experiment. >> >> if that works, you could try typing "startx" (lose the quotes). which >> may provide informative errors. or not. >> >> YMMV >> >> > Thanks for your response, but... > No, tried it, but that did not work either unfortunately. > If you still have the machine available, try using the experimental kernel: http://mirror.centos.org/altarch/7/experimental/x86_64/ Also, what graphic card does it use? Thanks, Johnny Hughes
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