CentOS

No error message any more - this seems to have fixed it. Impressive. Thanks!

Dear Gurus, another bump in my road to Microsemi FPGA tools. As a part of the installation procedure I'm supposed to install and start the license manager. The command to start fails however: ./Linux_Licensing_Daemon/lmgrd -c ./flexlm/License.dat -log /tmp/lmgrd.log bash: ./Linux_Licensing_Daemon/lm...

I don't think there is the GPU disabling option in the ASUS BIOS. Besides, I'm now glad to be able to move on with what really matters (FPGAs), while the power consumption of the design platform is of less importance - I have the wall power plugged in most of the time anyway. Thanks for the suggesti...

For information of anyone interested: upgrading the BIOS to the latest version changed nothing. Even the 'Firmware bug' message persists. The system functions fine under the i915 driver, however.

Ok, the nouveau driver behaviour has been erratic. When I powered the system after a bit longer time of system having been off, it booted fine into the Gnome desktop at 1920x1080, and appeared stable although I didn't dare to do anything serious with it. But if I rebooted, or shut the power off and ...

My joy was too early ... the system is now unstable. The first Gnome session after the fix (where I wrote the previous post) was fine, but after reboot the Gnome sessions crash a few seconds after the desktop comes visible. The display generates a red ring (like migraine aura) around the desktop and...

(So that someone else googling for a solution could benefit from this effort: my laptop is Asus X550V ) Thank you for the suggestion. The least effort way to remove the nvidia-related changes was to re-install the CentOS fresh again, once again using text-based installer as the graphical one refuses...

Ok here we go: I'd be curious about what causes these symptoms in the Xorg log file: 35.723 (EE) Unable to find a valid framebuffer device 35.731 (EE) Screen 0 deleted because of no matching config section. 35.731 (II) UnloadModule: "modesetting" 35.731 (EE) Screen 0 deleted because of no matching c...

Thank you for your insight. I agree that the nvidia driver is not necessary if I don't need 3D. However, the 800x600 was the sole available resolution already fresh after the CentOS installation, when I believe Nouveau was the active driver. Installing the nvidia driver was my (misguided) attempt fo...

Dear gurus, I've been setting up a CentOS 7 system as a platform for Microsemi FPGA tools. I have more experience in the Debian branch, but even there I try to be more like an end user than a system specialist. This is a laptop with a built-in 1920x1080 screen, and a dual display adapter with Intel ...