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? Most video cards have a VGA compatible mode? Have you tried that? 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.
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? Will that require more changes in more underlying things?
My guess would be there's a lot of work there.
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".
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.
Regards, Alain
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Sorry I can't be more help that that.