[Novalug] ATI ES1000 video CentOS 5.1 question

[David Mallwitz]

In your /etc/X11/xorg.conf file, under the "Device" section, change the 
Driver line to read:

Driver      "svga"

And then do an "init 5" to restart X.

-D

Megan Larko wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have a new box with a Tyan motherboard that has integrated an ATI 
> ES1000 (Rev 02) VGA compatible controller.    The OS is an CentOS 5.1 
> installed from DVD last Friday.  The box is not yet on-line so it has 
> not yet been patched.
> 
> I am booting into init level 3 (no X) via /etc/inittab.   The startx 
> command fails with (EE) No drivers available.  A Google search indicates 
> that this hw should use the radeon.ko driver but I cannot insmod that 
> driver because of two screens worth of "Unknown symbols" all of which 
> being with "drm_".
> 
> The kernel is 2.6.18-53.el5 stock vanilla CentOS 5.1.  The only 
> radeon.ko file is in 
> /lib/modules/2.6.18-53.el5/kernel/drivers/char/drm/radeon.ko
> 
> I can deal with degraded X; I just want to use a tool.  Is there any way 
> in which I can dumb this box down to a simple xterm/vga graphics 
> capability, no drm to run X on the box?
> 
> thank you,
> 
> megan
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