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It's a long time I didn't write a note.

Usual excuses. Time is passing fast. Family, Kid, Work, and the Lazy indolent of human nature, should be enough to describe this state !


What happens since I write my last notes.

Actually a plenty of work and problems.

To summarize, I installed Cent0S 6.0 with the Nouveau NVidia driver, and I was very happy to succeed.

Confident in the future, I accept to upgrade my centOS to a new version a kernel: 6.0

And there the problems begin. When I start, no GUI interface, even no access with a prompt.
Oups!
Hopfully, the network interface was working properly. The only possibility to connect to CentOS was from another PC on the network with telnet/SSH connection. I spent 2 weeks like this trying to browse internet to find a solution (My windows on first boot continue to work properly, so the problem was not a big problem).

After some times, CentOS was ready for download, and I upgrade the kernel another time.
Here, after the boot, no GUI connection, but a big improvement, the command line was working.

I became a expert to install/remove the Nouveau driver of NVidia. But no more chance. It was working on CentOS 6.0, but not after...

By browsing dozens of internet pages
At the end, I found a note explaining to not use the official driver from NVidia but installing the "kmod-nvidia" from elrepo.

Here the complete link references:

"
Install elrepo in place of nvidia driver

[CentOS] nvidia failure with new kernel
http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/2011-January/104548.html

Alternatively, you could use the nvidia driver packages from elrepo.org:
http://elrepo.org/tiki/kmod-nvidia

You do need to set up elrepo if you have not used it before.
Instructions are here:
http://elrepo.org/tiki/tiki-index.php

You will probably also want to install the yum priorities plugin to
avoid conflicts between elrepo and the base repos (or any other
third-party repos you may use).
http://wiki.centos.org/PackageManagement/Yum/Priorities
"


And it works! Even, I upgrade to CentOS 6.3 (twice), and recently to 6.4, and wonderful, the package too, and at startup my GUI configuration of my graphic card continues to work properly.

Finally, this story is behind me, but I was closed to give up linux as graphical interface on my laptop.

Since, I work more and more on linux, and less and less on windows.
I apreciate the simplified interface, compared to the flashy one of windows.
 

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