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...ocking >station and have no alternative. Thank you. Researching this further, the issue seems to be with x11. I found that blindly typing my password to log into the system seems to log me in and launches the expected startup applications. Since there is no desktop on the display, I can start a CtrlAlt-F2 root session and can verify this by ps aux. Looking at Xorg.0.log, I see an error message - when I do not log in as a regular user - ?failed to add fb -22? followed by ?modeset(0): failed to set mode: invalid argument?. This is presumably the point of failure in displaying the graphical desktop...

I now have an older laptop with a display problem. I installed Centos 7 on it in February and had to install the xorg-x11-drv-ati and evdev drivers because the docking station has an ATI Radeon card. Everything worked fine with a dual display setup. I probably after that ran a system update but did not reboot while in this office. Today, when I got to the office again for the first time in seven