It works, almost - Re: [CentOS] Installing Centos 5 on one system and moving the HD to another....

Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com
Wed Aug 29 15:13:56 UTC 2007


Robert Moskowitz wrote:
> I did the install onto the HD in the Compaq, set inittab to 3 and moved 
> the HD to the decTOP.
> 
> I booted without the ethernet USB dongle, and after I was logged in, I 
> plugged it in.  I had to bring up eth0 and start dhclient.  But the 
> network is working.
> 
> But X is not.  Different video.
> 
> /etc/sysconf/hwconf has the right info:
> 
> Class: VIDEO
> bus: PCI
> detach: 0
> desc: "National Semiconductor Corporation Geode GX2 Graphics Processor"
> vendorId: 100b
> deviceId: 0030
> subvendorId: 100b
> subdeviceId: 0030
> pciType: 1
> pcidom:     0
> pcibus:    0
> pcidev:    1
> pcifn:    1
> 
> So how do I 'fix' X?

Does 'system-config-display' get anywhere?  If not, post another message 
here with a more descriptive subject and the part that looks like the 
problem from your /var/log/Xorg.0.log and maybe someone who knows more 
about X will jump in.

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   Les Mikesell
    lesmikesell at gmail.com



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