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 -- Les pages de manuel Linux en français http://manpagesfr.free.fr/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-devel/attachments/20081221/c51baa2a/attachment-0007.html> -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part. URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-devel/attachments/20081221/c51baa2a/attachment-0007.sig>