[CentOS] Dell Dimension 2400 W/Intel 845-G Video

Tue Oct 7 01:45:23 UTC 2014
Peter <peter at pajamian.dhs.org>

On 10/06/2014 03:47 PM, Mark LaPierre wrote:
> I've been Googeling and experimenting for two days trying to find a way
> to deal with the Intel 845-G video chipset in this Dell Dimension 2400.
>  First, it doesn't have a DVD drive so I have to install from a CD.
> When I try to boot into the Live CD I get a video error something like,
> Undefined video mode number: 317.  It hangs at the splash screen.

Lots of solutions for this in google:
https://www.google.co.nz/search?q=%22Undefined+video+mode+number%3A+317%22

The driver for that chipset is just the regular intel driver:
yum install xorg-x11-drv-intel

You never mentioned which version of CentOS you're trying to install.


Peter