[CentOS] intel video driver

Wed Jan 9 17:20:30 UTC 2013
Roberto Nunnari <roberto.nunnari at supsi.ch>

Nux! wrote:
> On 09.01.2013 16:43, Roberto Nunnari wrote:
>> Hi all.
>>
>> I just installed centOS 5 on a new pc and everything works very well,
>> apart the video driver that is not recognized by X and so I get no
>> graphics hardware acceleration (glxgears is very unresponsive).
>>
>> lspci reports:
>> 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 2nd Generation 
>> Core
>> Processor Family Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 09)
>>
>> while Xorg.0.log reads:
>> (--) PCI:*(0:2:0) Intel Corporation unknown chipset (0x0102) rev 9, 
>> Mem
>> @ 0xe0c00000/22, 0xd0000000/28, I/O @ 0x3000/6
>>
>> I've been searching for an rpm for adding the right driver with no 
>> success.
>>
>> Could anybody try to help me out, please?
>> Thank you.
>> Robi
> 
> No idea how to solve this problem, other than recommending you to 
> upgrade to Centos 6 which has support out of the box for this.
> 

I'd love to.. but the pc will be used for running a software that is 
well known to run well on CentOS 5.. but if I will not find another 
solution, then I may be forced to try it on CentOS 6..

Any more hints, please?
Thank you.
Robi