We do have the elrepo drivers installed. Maybe part of the problem is also
that we're using an IOgear KVM switch?
On Tue, Feb 6, 2018 at 11:58 AM, Phelps, Matthew <mphelps@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 6, 2018 at 11:40 AM, Felipe Westfields <
> felipe.westfields@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > I'm having issues with a quad video card on CentOS.
> >
> > We have several systems on CentOS 6.8 and CentOS 6.9. The installed
> > hardware is:
> >
> > Video card - Nvidia NVS quadro 440
> > PC - Dell OptiPlex 9020
> >
> > Whenever you update the kernel, it kills the graphical interface. The
> > system appears to lock up and freeze during a reboot, but you can still
> get
> > into it with SSH, or, if you're at the console, control-alt-F2 gets you
> to
> > a command prompt.
> >
> > If you exclude the kernel update when applying yum update, it is usually
> > fine. If the kernel update is applied, and you roll back the update, that
> > sometimes gets you back into the graphical console, but more likely than
> > not, it won't.
> >
> > Not sure where to go with this.
> >
> > Any suggestions?
> >
> > FW
> > _______________________________________________
> >
>
> Which version of the driver? How did you install it?
>
> If you're not already using it, I heartily recommend using the ELRepo
> repository, http://elrepo.org/tiki/. We have several dozen CO 6.9 machines
> with various Nvidia cards and except for a recent version that had an issue
> with DVI connections (not the repository's fault), we haven't had any
> problems.
>
> --
> Matt Phelps
> System Administrator, Computation Facility
> Harvard - Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
> mphelps@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, http://www.cfa.harvard.edu
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