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<p>Le samedi 20 décembre 2008, William L. Maltby a écrit :</p>
<p>> On Sat, 2008-12-20 at 22:47 +0100, Alain PORTAL wrote:</p>
<p>> > Hi,</p>
<p>> ></p>
<p>> > I just installed and fully updated Centos 5.2 on my laptop.</p>
<p>> > Unfortunately, this one need at least the version 6.8.0 of the</p>
<p>> > xorg-x11-drv-ati (available in Fedora 9), and this driver need</p>
<p>> > xorg-x11-server-Xorg >= 1.4.99.1 :-(</p>
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<p>> Are you sure about that?</p>
<p></p>
<p>Unfortunately yes.</p>
<p>I was unable to use the graphical install.</p>
<p>After installation, I wanted to start X but I got a grey screen, I was unable to switch between ttys using Alt F[1-7], unable to kill X server with Alt-Ctrl-Back and I had to restart the laptop with Ctrl-Alt-Del.</p>
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<p>And I got the same grey screen and freeze when I tried to use system-config-display.</p>
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<p>> Most video cards have a VGA compatible mode? </p>
<p>> Have you tried that?</p>
<p></p>
<p>Not with centos, but some months ago, I tried even vesa mode with Fedora 9.</p>
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<p>> About the only loss is some of the higher</p>
<p>> resolutions and maybe some performance. The current X11 might be OK if</p>
<p>> you can use and live with the VGA compatible mode.</p>
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<p>I can accept lower resolution if I can use X server...</p>
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<p>> > So, I need to rebuild many things if I want to use centos on my laptop,</p>
<p>> > and I want to use it!</p>
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<p>> Might be more work thatn you expect. Will you have to use/build later</p>
<p>> versions of Gnome/KDE libraries, apps, etc. when the new X11 is</p>
<p>> installed?</p>
<p></p>
<p>Current Centos desktops and libraries are enough for me if they can be ran on a new X server.</p>
<p></p>
<p>> Will that require more changes in more underlying things?</p>
<p></p>
<p>I don't know.</p>
<p></p>
<p>> My guess would be there's a lot of work there.</p>
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<p>Sure, if the X server rebuilt imply a near full rebuilt of Centos, this isn't really serious...</p>
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<p>> > As this is the first time I use Centos, could you tell me which tools I</p>
<p>> > need and how I have to do to rebuild packages that I'll probably take on</p>
<p>> > Fedora 9 mirrors?</p>
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<p>> I don't have the technical knowledge to help you with that. But whenever</p>
<p>> certain "core" pieces are changed, there's a lot of potential for</p>
<p>> breakage.</p>
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<p>> Since CentOS is "enterprise", i.e. stable, not supporting the latest</p>
<p>> hardware, gets mostly security patches back-ported, CentOS may not be</p>
<p>> appropriate if you need is for the "latest and greatest".</p>
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<p>I don't want the latest and greatest.</p>
<p>At home as at the office, I'm under FC6, which isn't supported since more than one year.</p>
<p>I tried Fedora 9 (whith difficulties) on my laptop when I buy it, and I could see that I didn't like it (particulary Kde4).</p>
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<p>> The more knowledgeable folks on the list suggest another distro for</p>
<p>> those that do need the "latest and greatest" without as much need for</p>
<p>> the "enterprise class" stability.</p>
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<p>I decided to leave Fedora for several reasons, a big one is its too short time life: 13 months is now unacceptable to me;</p>
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<p>> Sorry I can't be more help that that.</p>
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<p>Thanks for yours answers.</p>
<p>But I hope I'll get answers about tools and how to build or rebuild from scratch or srpms on Centos because even if I can't install Centos on my laptop, I want to install it on two older computers.</p>
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<p>Regards,</p>
<p>Alain</p>
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