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?
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 Craig
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 restartThere 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.
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? If black, did you try startx for the command line? Are there any errors (EE) or warnings (WW) in /var/log/Xorg.0.log? Anything in /var/log/messages or dmesg? What is the output of lspci | grep VGA? -- Dale Dellutri