[CentOS] Video Card not recognized!!!

Johnny Hughes mailing-lists at hughesjr.com
Mon May 29 14:07:04 UTC 2006


On Mon, 2006-05-29 at 09:07 -0400, Kirti S. Bajwa wrote:
> > You mean CentOS 4.3 x86_64 right?
> 
> Yes.
> 
> >Hmmmm probably a S3 UniChrome video built-in ... never had luck getting
> >it to work.  I ended up putting an old Radeon 7200 in the box for GUI.
> 
> >It's possible the FB driver might work, but it would be slow for
> >performance.
> 
> Any other suggestion??

You can try using the vesa driver to get X initially working.

Edit the file /etc/X11/xorg.conf and look for the section for your video
card.   It should contain I line like this:

Identifier  "Videocard0"

Change the driver line to:

Driver "vesa"

and see if that works for you.
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