[CentOS] nVdia C15G chipset and GeForce 6100 on board graphix controller

Chris Geldenhuis cgeldenhuis at jhb.ullmanns.co.za
Wed Aug 29 12:19:43 UTC 2007


Akemi Yagi wrote:
> On 8/29/07, Chris Geldenhuis <chris.gelden at iafrica.com> wrote:
>   
>> Hi,
>>
>> Apologies for the long post - but I'm being driven crazy by this problem.
>>
>> A while ago I built a new server that is intended to serve as a Xen
>> server running multiple DomU systems used a test environments for
>> systems that I am working on. The host Xen system will be CentOS 5 as
>> will some of the DomU systems. The systems will all be hardware virtualized.
>>
>> The motherboard uses the nVidia C15G chipset and the onboard graphix
>> controller is recognised as a GeForce 6100.
>>
>> I am having problems getting the Video and mouse to work properly with
>> CentOS 5 - both with as set of CD's downloaded when CentOS 5 was first
>> released and with a DVD obtained from one of the local distro shops.
>>
>> The symptoms are that the Video is run in 800X600 mode and the mouse
>> pointer works while the system is booting and while I am logging in to a
>> GUI session. Once the login process has completed the mouse pointer
>> disappears (is not visible at all). The mouse does however work as you
>> can see changes to the Icons and menus on screen when moving the mouse
>> around (blindly).
>>
>> The same situation obtains when running the system with FC7 installed.
>>
>> However when I boot the system using a Knoppix 5.1.1 live disk the Video
>> resolution is 1024X768 and the mouse works properly.
>>
>> I attach the output of lspci and lsmod from both CentOS and Knoppix as
>> well as the X86 Config file from Knoppix.
>>
>> Could someone please advise me on how to get CentOs to give the same
>> results with the video and mouse as Knoppix.
>>     
>
> Have you tried installing the nvidia driver?
>
> Akemi
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Hi Akemi,

Thanks for the quick response.

I am new to installing drivers etc. Could you possible give me a few 
pointers to help me along the way.

TIA

ChrisG



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