I wonder if anyone has CentOS-6 working on an HP MicroServer?
I'm having a problem with the graphics driver
for the Radeon HD 4200 graphics card.
CentOS-5.6 is working fine on this machine;
but at present I only have CentOS-6 running in text mode.
The graphics card as given by "/sbin/lspci -m" is
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01:05.0 "VGA compatible controller" "ATI Technologies Inc" "M880G [Mobility
Radeon HD 4200]" "Hewlett-Packard Company" "Device 1609"
-------------------------------
Under CentOS-5.6 the Radeon related modules are
-------------------------------
[tim@grover ~]$ lsmod | grep -i radeon
radeon 148193 0
drm 115561 1 radeon
-------------------------------
Admittedly I have probably installed different packages
in the two cases.
I'm wondering if I could try the old radeon module,
and if so how?
Are there any documents that might help me
determine the problem, and hopefully solve it?
I don't see any errors listed in /var/log/messages, or in dmesg.
Any suggestions or advice gratefully received.
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Timothy Murphy
e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net
tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366
s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland
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09-06-2011, 11:24 AM
Timothy Murphy
Radeon driver under CentOS-6
Timothy Murphy wrote:
> I wonder if anyone has CentOS-6 working on an HP MicroServer?
> I'm having a problem with the graphics driver
> for the Radeon HD 4200 graphics card.
It seems to me that the problem may arise
from the lack of config-system-display in CentOS-6.
I see that under CentOS-5.6 the file /etc/X11/xorg.conf
was created by config-system-display .
The corresponding file under CentOS-6 is very short:
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Section "Device"
Identifier "Videocard0"
Driver "vesa"
EndSection
--------------------------------
Is this file used at all in CentOS-6?
According to
<http://www.linuxtopia.org/online_books/rhel6/rhel_6_migration_guide/rhel_6_migration_chap-
Migration_Guide-Package_Changes.html>
"The system-config-display tool has been replaced
by XRandr configuration tools"
Unfortunately I've no idea how to use XRandR,
and the documentation for this is not much help.
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Timothy Murphy
e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net
tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366
s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland
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09-06-2011, 02:06 PM
Timothy Murphy
Radeon driver under CentOS-6
Timothy Murphy wrote:
>> I wonder if anyone has CentOS-6 working on an HP MicroServer?
>> I'm having a problem with the graphics driver
>> for the Radeon HD 4200 graphics card.
I've managed to get the machine into graphics mode,
after following the advice in
<http://docs.redhat.com/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/6/html-
single/Installation_Guide/index.html>
to add xdriver=vesa to the kernel line in grub.conf .
I'm not sure if vesa is a different driver,
or is it a mode for the radeon driver?
It does not seem to appear as a module under lsmod ;
the same radeon modules as before are listed.
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Timothy Murphy
e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net
tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366
s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland
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09-06-2011, 02:47 PM
Nicolas Thierry-Mieg
Radeon driver under CentOS-6
Timothy Murphy wrote:
>
> I'm not sure if vesa is a different driver,
> or is it a mode for the radeon driver?
> It does not seem to appear as a module under lsmod ;
> the same radeon modules as before are listed.
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=vesa+driver
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