On 03/06/2013 03:47 PM, Dale Dellutri wrote: > On Wed, Mar 6, 2013 at 2:31 PM, Robert Moskowitz <rgm at htt-consult.com> wrote: >> On 03/06/2013 02:51 PM, Craig White wrote: >>> On Mar 6, 2013, at 12:24 PM, Robert Moskowitz wrote: >>> >>>> I pulled one of my old OQO model 2 out of the junk bin and installed >>>> Centos 6.3 over Centos 5.3. >>>> >>>> The internal video does not work in graphics mode (text works fine), >>>> though a monitor attacked to the VGA port works fine. Although my >>>> intension is to use this as a portable test server, it would be nice if >>>> the video was available. How might I go about figuring out the Xorg >>>> magic to get it working? > When you say "internal video does not work", what do you mean? > Is the laptop screen black, garbled, flickering, unresponsive? Scrolling flickering, blue and white image. > If black, did you try startx for the command line? Have not switched to init 3 to try. > Are there any errors (EE) or warnings (WW) in /var/log/Xorg.0.log? (EE) open /dev/fb0: No such device (WW) Falling back to old probe method for vesa (WW) Falling back to old probe method for fbdev (WW) CHROME(0): Manufacturer plainly copied main PCI IDs to subsystem/card IDs. (WW) CHROME(0): Unable to estimate virtual size (WW) CHROME(0): [XvMC] XvMC is not supported on this chipset (WW) Lid Switch: Don't know how to use device > Anything in /var/log/messages or dmesg? what would I search for? > > What is the output of lspci | grep VGA? 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. CX700/VX700 [S3 UniChrome Pro] (rev 03) Hope this points somewhere.