[CentOS] Video Card not recognized!!!

Mon May 29 19:11:11 UTC 2006
Paul <subsolar at subsolar.com>

On a somewhat related subject, besides Intel integrated graphics, are
there any other supported by CentOS 4?

The only other I can think of might be the Radeon Mobility based ones.

I think the latest fedora supports the nVidia 6100 & 6150 based onboard
graphics.

Regards,
Paul Berger

On Mon, 2006-05-29 at 09:07 -0500, Johnny Hughes wrote:
> 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.