On 10/09/11 06:36, Kevin Thomas wrote:
> Ok, I jujst got a brand new Dell XPS laptop a few days ago. I managed to
> install Windows 7 and SL 6.1 side by side in a dual boot setup. This
> laptop has the core i7 processor, which means it has integrated Intel HD
> 3000 graphics, but it also has a 2GB Nvidia GT540M (with optimus)
> discrete card as well. I know that optimus is not natively supported
> yet, but according to the SL forums, the generic nvidia driver can be
> installed instead (kmod-nvidia). The instructions said to just do "yum
> install kmod-nvidia". This installed the drivers for me and when I
> rebooted, I saw the plymouth-rings splash screen for the first time
> ever, but the system hung. I restarted again and pushed ESC to see the
> messages and the screen flickered a few times and it stopped on
> "registering binary handler for windows applications" Some googling
> informed me that this was due to the wine service being enabled, so I
> disabled it and restarted. This time, it got hung on "starting atd:" and
> the screen flickered a few times. I have a feeling that if I disabled
> atd, it would just hang on the next service. I had to uninstall the
> kmod-nvidia package just to boot my system again. There has to be a way
> to get the nvidia driver working. Any help would be appreciated.
>
> Kevin
>


In order to help troubleshoot, could you please provide some more 
information. Please install kmod-nvidia and see if you can boot to 
runlevel 3 and provide the following information (output from the 
following commands):

uname -a
find /lib/modules -name nvidia.ko
cat /boot/grub/grub.conf

Thanks.