On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 05:42:11PM +0000, Mister IT Guru wrote:
On 14/01/2011 17:22, mahmoud mansy wrote:
hey every one i got the centos 5.5 and the following problem occuered: 1- the video display doesnot probe my card right. 2- the wireless card doesnot installed .
my laptop is dell studio1569: (
I would first check that your hardware is compatible with CentOS - I'd do that by going onto RedHat's site, and checking their supported hardware list, if its there, we have a winner, if not, then I think it would be acceptable to not expect it to work 100%. Because something works in ubuntu, or fedora, (both of which I consider "desktop" distros) doesn't mean that it'll work in all other versions of linux, because there are different kernel versions out there. Even kernel versions that are the same between distros, may have been compiled with different options.
There is the fact that the CentOS kernel is much older than the Fedora/Ubuntu (and basically everything else) out there. In many cases, support for a driver may not be in the CentOS kernel, though it is in the Fedora or Ubuntu kernels---as was said, those two are aimed towards the desktop user and they are more concerned with supporting common, more current hardware for laptops and such.