[CentOS] Centos 6.3 - unsupported video hardware

Wed Mar 6 20:31:27 UTC 2013
Robert Moskowitz <rgm at htt-consult.com>

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?
> ----
> I would recommend that you start by disabling the old xorg.conf and see if it can dynamically generate a working configuration.
>
> sudo mv /etc/X11/xorg.conf /etc/X11/xorg.conf-disabled
>
> and then restart

There is no xorg.conf.   This is a fresh install of Centos 6.3; I 
removed the old 5.3 partitions and did a total from scratch install.