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

[Akemi Yagi]

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