[CentOS] Centos 6.3 - unsupported video hardware

On Wed, Mar 6, 2013 at 3:03 PM, Robert Moskowitz <rgm at htt-consult.com> wrote:
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> On 03/06/2013 03:47 PM, Dale Dellutri wrote:
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>> On Wed, Mar 6, 2013 at 2:31 PM, Robert Moskowitz <rgm at htt-consult.com>
>> wrote:
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>>> On 03/06/2013 02:51 PM, Craig White wrote:
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>>>> On Mar 6, 2013, at 12:24 PM, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
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>>>>> I pulled one of my old OQO model 2 out of the junk bin and installed
>>>>> Centos 6.3 over Centos 5.3.
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>>>>> 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?
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>> When you say "internal video does not work", what do you mean?
>> Is the laptop screen black, garbled, flickering, unresponsive?
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> Scrolling flickering, blue and white image.
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>> If black, did you try startx for the command line?
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> Have not switched to init 3 to try.
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>> Are there any errors (EE) or warnings (WW) in /var/log/Xorg.0.log?
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> (EE) open /dev/fb0: No such device
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> (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
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>> Anything in /var/log/messages or dmesg?
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> what would I search for?

Error messages pertaining to the video controller.

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>> What is the output of lspci | grep VGA?
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> 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.

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> Hope this points somewhere.
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Dale Dellutri