[CentOS] centos 5.6 and intel MHD4500 graphics card

Wed Jun 29 13:43:09 UTC 2011
Hüvely Balázs <balazs.huvely at gmail.com>

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
>
> this class of problem is in a long time unaddressed issue
> group upstream
>
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=640421
>
> -- Russ herrold
>
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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?

Thanks: Balazs