[CentOS] Centos 6.3 - unsupported video hardware

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.