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