Re: [CentOS] video problem since 2015-04-01 update

2015-04-13 Thread Francis Gerund
I spoke too soon. Although the screen flicker has been worked around, I still intermittently get lots of horizontal black lines when going to gmail. No other distribution shows this problem, only Centos 7, and only after the 1503 updates. On Fri, Apr 10, 2015 at 10:09 PM, Francis Gerund wrot

Re: [CentOS] video problem since 2015-04-01 update

2015-04-10 Thread Francis Gerund
Yes, that is very much like the problem I encountered, but in my case it did not need multiple monitors to happen, just one. The config file suggested did seem to fix the problem, at least serving as a (hopefully) temporary workaround. Johnny, thanks for the pointer. And thanks to all who replie

Re: [CentOS] video problem since 2015-04-01 update

2015-04-07 Thread Johnny Hughes
On 04/04/2015 11:24 AM, Francis Gerund wrote: > Is there a way in Centos 7 to boot into an alternate video setup? > > Some distributions have an option to boot into something called VESA (or > something similar). Something that might not have the fanciest features, > but more likely to at least j

Re: [CentOS] video problem since 2015-04-01 update

2015-04-07 Thread Dorozhkin Andrey
Jay Warren wrote: I am getting the same problem as the OP but I am on nvidia. I can confirm the problem on Nvidia GTX 750/760 with kmod-nvidia 346.47 proprietary driver from elrepo. As a workaround you could try to set PowerMizer mode to maximum performance using nvidia-settings utility. I am

Re: [CentOS] video problem since 2015-04-01 update

2015-04-05 Thread Jay Warren
I am getting the same problem as the OP but I am on nvidia.   -Original message- From:Bill Maltby (C4B) Sent:Sat 04-04-2015 12:32 pm Subject:Re: [CentOS] video problem since 2015-04-01 update To:centos@centos.org; On Sat, 2015-04-04 at 11:24 -0500, Francis Gerund wrote: > Is there a

Re: [CentOS] video problem since 2015-04-01 update

2015-04-04 Thread Bill Maltby (C4B)
On Sat, 2015-04-04 at 11:24 -0500, Francis Gerund wrote: > Is there a way in Centos 7 to boot into an alternate video setup? Check the kernel parameters - ISTR long ago using a paramer to the kernel added to the grub boot line that had one of my machines go into VESA mode. ISTR some numbers after "

Re: [CentOS] video problem since 2015-04-01 update

2015-04-04 Thread Francis Gerund
Is there a way in Centos 7 to boot into an alternate video setup? Some distributions have an option to boot into something called VESA (or something similar). Something that might not have the fanciest features, but more likely to at least just work. On Fri, Apr 3, 2015 at 8:58 PM, Francis Gerun

Re: [CentOS] video problem since 2015-04-01 update

2015-04-03 Thread Francis Gerund
Updated the kernel as suggested to 3.19, did not solve problem. Unbelievable! Oh, well . . . On Fri, Apr 3, 2015 at 8:13 PM, Francis Gerund wrote: > Okay, thanks to all who took the time to reply. > > What a shame; I hadn't planned on spending Easter weekend learning to do > kernel upgrades, b

Re: [CentOS] video problem since 2015-04-01 update

2015-04-03 Thread Francis Gerund
Okay, thanks to all who took the time to reply. What a shame; I hadn't planned on spending Easter weekend learning to do kernel upgrades, but . . . here it goes. On Fri, Apr 3, 2015 at 5:59 PM, Ned Slider wrote: > > > On 03/04/15 20:41, Francis Gerund wrote: > > Well, it could be the same,

Re: [CentOS] video problem since 2015-04-01 update

2015-04-03 Thread Ned Slider
On 03/04/15 20:41, Francis Gerund wrote: > Well, it could be the same, but the bug report does seem to refer to the > bug being in kernel series 3.18. I am just using whatever 3.10 series > kernel comes standard with Centos 7.x. > Well, the CentOS kernel is a 3.10 kernel in name (or number) on

Re: [CentOS] video problem since 2015-04-01 update

2015-04-03 Thread Francis Gerund
Well, it could be the same, but the bug report does seem to refer to the bug being in kernel series 3.18. I am just using whatever 3.10 series kernel comes standard with Centos 7.x. I don't know anything about bug reports, and I an not familiar with swapping out kernels in Centos. BTW, is El Rep

Re: [CentOS] video problem since 2015-04-01 update

2015-04-03 Thread Akemi Yagi
On Fri, Apr 3, 2015 at 10:30 AM, Francis Gerund wrote: > Hello! > > No updates for days until 2015-04-01. Then presented with huge steaming > pile of updates all at once, apparently related to Centos 7.1 release. > After reboot, there is a problem with the video. It seems to flicker when > the

[CentOS] video problem since 2015-04-01 update

2015-04-03 Thread Francis Gerund
Hello! No updates for days until 2015-04-01. Then presented with huge steaming pile of updates all at once, apparently related to Centos 7.1 release. Not thinking about it being April Fools Day, I immediately did: yum -v check-update, then yum -v update then rebooted. After reboot, there is