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Phil Perry <[log in to unmask]>
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Phil Perry <[log in to unmask]>
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Mon, 13 Jun 2011 18:53:12 +0100
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On 13/06/11 17:52, Akemi Yagi wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 8:49 AM, Misc Things<[log in to unmask]>  wrote:
>> Hello,
>> Finally got to installing the sl6.its wonderful to see its booting
>> much faster then previous version (centos5.6).
>>
>> Here is the situation and a question :
>> I have an Nvidia video card. by default it uses the nouveau driver.
>> Unfortunately, I was not able to run compiz. I followed the
>> instructions on their site ans installed the closed source (nvidia)
>> driver. I also blacklisted and disables nouveau driver. That made
>> compiz "happy". But now the pretty graphical load is gone.
>> The question is - how can I get it back :)?
>
> First, revert everything you have done. :)  Especially make sure you
> do not have anything from Nvidia. Then install kmod-nvidia from ELRepo
> as detailed here:
>
> http://elrepo.org/tiki/kmod-nvidia
>

and that page also describes how to restore plymouth graphical boot on 
EL6 with the nvidia driver under known issues.

Regards,

Phil

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