Dear All,

I installed CentOs on a brand new Dell Lattitude E5430.

I did a minimal install, then did a "yum groupinstall Desktop" and I installed xorg-x11-drv-intel.i686.

Also, I installed a i686 CentOs on a 64bit system, thinking because it has 4Gb or ram, It makes no difference.

The screen is split top to bottom on the left hand side.

This was quickly solved by adding "nomodeset" to the kernel line in /boot/grub/menu.lst, however now I can't add an external monitor or beamer.

Next I ran " Xorg -configure" and switched between vesa and intel driver, but the only thing that clears the spit screen so far is nomodeset.

Here is some hardware info: *-display description: VGA compatible controller product: 2nd Generation Core Processor Family Integrated Graphics Controller vendor: Intel Corporation physical id: 2 bus info: pci@0000:00:02.0 version: 09 width: 64 bits clock: 33MHz capabilities: msi pm vga_controller bus_master cap_list rom configuration: driver=i915 latency=0 resources: irq:28 memory:f6c00000-f6ffffff memory:e0000000-efffffff(prefetchable) iopor t:f000(size=64)

I googled this and found some posts ( not with Centos ) from people reporting this solved by updating BIOS and adapting all sorts of settings.

Can anyone help me with this?

Many thanks already.

Greetings, J.