[CentOS] Switching from Vesa driver to video adapter driver fails

Edward Diener wrote:
> The Vesa driver works fine with CentOS 4.4. I have an NVidia 6200 
> video adapter. I go to Applications | System Settings | Display | 
> Hardware tab and find my video adapter in the list and set it. The 
> dialog tells me I have to log out for it to take effect, so I duly do 
> that. I then getting a message from a non-graphics screen saying that 
> the attempt to switch to the video adapter failed. 
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Use the vesa driver or use the proprietary nvidia driver.  The nv driver 
from xorg (or at least the version(s) supplies with Centos 4 do not 
support my 6200 card.  No amount of fiddling made any difference.  The 
proprietary driver supports it very nicely (if your computing philosophy 
allows you to use  it).

Ted Miller