Theo Band wrote: > On 01/10/2013 10:32 AM, Roberto Nunnari wrote: >>>> Yes we are. On Quadro and enthusiast class equipment. CentOS 5 works fine, but we haven't done any sufficient CentOS 6 testing because other software vendors in Engineering are still not certified for the platform. What kind of problems are you having? Perhaps some of our findings will still apply. >>>> >> YES! Thank you very much to all! >> Following your advice, I just plugged in a dedicated video card, added >> proprietary drivers, and now it works fine on CentOS 5! >> This list is wonderful!!:-) > We use Mentor (also an very expensive software toolset) and I have had a > lot of issues getting the drivers work correctly (Ati, Nvidia). The > price for the graphic adapter was not an issue at all. Finding one that > works correctly with the software is another story. The newest Ati > driver worked only once! After every session the workstation had to be > rebooted to get it to work again. > > I went over to Cento6 just a couple of weeks ago. Most workstations now > work with the standard Nouveau driver. No problem seen yet. The only > annoying problem is that sometimes an application windows stays "empty". > Simply resizing the window fixes it. for me it's hard to say what > causes. The software needs backing-store on the X server being enabled. > I underdstand this is old technology and I suspect this is now causing > problems. But the bottomline for us is that CentOS6 seems to be easier > with the built-in drivers compared to CentOS5. I see.. good to know that things work even better on the newer version of CentOS! I gave the pc (CentOS 5 and with a temporary old ATI card) to the final user and now I'm waiting for his feedback.. Thank you. Robi