On Fri, Sep 9, 2011 at 10:36 PM, Kevin Thomas <[log in to unmask]> 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

You might want to search through the Nvidia forum site. I see some
issue reports there. You can google with something like
"site:forums.nvidia.com  dell xps laptop".

Akemi