CentOS - Dec 2010 - display issue after installing centos 5.5 on hp probook 4420s

HI

I was just assigned a laptop with a pre install windows 7 in it. I decide to
dual boot this server with cent os 5.5 , i did a "linux text " at the
boot
prompt as anaconda was not able to display the graphis screen ( it was
barely viable ) . The installation happened perfect , but when i start x
windows " startx" or init3 , i can barely see the display. I dont know
where
the issue lies , what module do i need to load .The display is barely
visible .

Thanks for all the help !!

-- 
Regards
Agnello D'souza
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On Wed, 8 Dec 2010, Agnello George wrote:
> To: CentOS mailing list <centos at centos.org>
> From: Agnello George <agnello.dsouza at gmail.com>
> Subject: [CentOS] display issue after installing centos 5.5 on hp probook
>     4420s
> 
> HI
>
> I was just assigned a laptop with a pre install windows 7 in it. I decide
to
> dual boot this server with cent os 5.5 , i did a "linux text " at
the boot
> prompt as anaconda was not able to display the graphis screen ( it was
> barely viable ) . The installation happened perfect , but when i start x
> windows " startx" or init3 , i can barely see the display. I dont
know where
> the issue lies , what module do i need to load .The display is barely
> visible .
>
> Thanks for all the help !!
Are you running on the mains charger?

Is there some sort of key configuration on your laptop to 
adjust the brightness of the display?

Kind Regards,

Keith

-- 
In theory, theory and practice are the same;
in practice they are not.

This email was sent from my laptop with Centos 5.5

On Tue, Dec 7, 2010 at 1:34 PM, Agnello George <agnello.dsouza at
gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> HI
>
> I was just assigned a laptop with a pre install windows 7 in it. I decide
to
> dual boot this server with cent os 5.5 , i did a "linux text " at
the boot
> prompt as anaconda was not able to display the graphis screen ( it was
> barely viable ) . The installation happened perfect , but when i start x
> windows " startx" or init3 , i can barely see the display. I dont
know where
> the issue lies , what module do i need to load .The display is barely
> visible .
>
> Thanks for all the help !!
Have you installed, and run "system-config-display"? Unless the
hardware was successfully configured at install time, which it
obviously was not due to the difficulties you had with the graphical
installation, your /etc/X11/xorg.conf or similar configuration files
are not well configured.

Find out the resolution of your laptop display screen, be sure to
select an LCD screeen of the matching size, and see how it goes. If
you have an NVidia chipset, you may need to install NVidia's drivers
for best performance, but this should get you started.