[CentOS] centos 5.6 and intel MHD4500 graphics card

[m.roth at 5-cent.us]

Hüvely Balázs wrote:
> On 06/28/2011 11:06 PM, R P Herrold wrote:
>> On Tue, 28 Jun 2011, Hüvely Balázs wrote:
>>
>>> I've a toshiba satellite notebook, and I tried to install centos 5.6.
>>> The installer starts, but when it turns to graphical mode, the
>>> backlight goes off. I see the windows, buttons, but it's very dark,
>>> maybe the backlight switching off..

>> do a text mode install
<snip>
> Ok, I did the text mode install successfully.
> The problem still exists: when i start X, or enter to runlevel 5, the
> screen goes to black. How can I resolve the problem? Is there any
> update, workaround?

Try
rm /etc/X11/xorg.conf
system-config-display

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