On Wed, Mar 6, 2013 at 3:03 PM, Robert Moskowitz <rgm at htt-consult.com> wrote: > > 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? Error messages pertaining to the video controller. > > >> >> What is the output of lspci | grep VGA? > > 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. CX700/VX700 [S3 > UniChrome Pro] (rev 03) Use the info in this line (VIA CX700 VX700 or UniChrome Pro) to do a google search. Add linux to the search terms to see what driver you need. > > Hope this points somewhere. > > -- Dale Dellutri