centos 5.6 and intel MHD4500 graphics card

[R P Herrold <herrold@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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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