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 > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > 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