[CentOS-devel] Rebuild xorg

Mon Dec 22 21:18:18 UTC 2008
Matej Cepl <mcepl at redhat.com>

On 2008-12-22, 18:24 GMT, Alain PORTAL wrote:
>> Just remove xorg.conf and restart X. What happens?
>
> X failed to start.
> Here is some piece of Xorg.0.log
>
> (=3D=3D) Log file: "/var/log/Xorg.0.log", Time: Mon Dec 22 18:46:20 2008
> (EE) Unable to locate/open config file

This is weird ... isn't there something weird about your 
configuration? NFS, SELinux, screwed up rights on /var/log -- 
I have never seen the error like this.

> (--) PCI:*(1:0:0) ATI Technologies Inc unknown chipset (0x7210) 
> rev 206, Mem

I talked with Dave Airlie about this and his conclusion was that 
most likely RHEL/CentOS 5.2 won't work with your card, but 5.3 
should. If you are willing to try Beta, then it should be 
available from 
ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/beta/RHEL5.3/

(of course, there is no support, it is beta, no upgrades, 
yadayadayada).  For more information see announcement at 
https://www.redhat.com/archives/rhelv5-announce/2008-October/msg00000.html
(it should be released January 2009).

Best,

Matěj Cepl