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