On Fri, 12 Jan 2007 at 12:52pm, 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. When I view why, amidst all the information given is the > messages: > > (EE) No devices detected. > Fatal server error: > No screens found > > I am able to switch back to the Vesa driver through the non-graphics screen, > and this brings me back to my graphics login and I am once again successfully > in CentOS 4.4 using the Vesa driver. > > Does anybody have any idea what the messages above mean or how I can correct > it so it can successfully load my video adapter specific settings ? The contents of /var/log/Xorg.0.log would be very useful in debugging this (read: necessary). If you have somewhere you can put them up for download (http or ftp), that'd be much preferable to mailing them to the list. -- Joshua Baker-LePain Department of Biomedical Engineering Duke University